Abe

Standing against Antizionism, Kahanism, Palestinianism, and other forms of race-based prejudice.

Let’s talk about it.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Slowly but surely, every IDF attack that was reported by Gazan "journalists" to have "targeted civilians" will be proven to have killed combatants. The "genocide" narrative is falling apart, which is why South Africa asked for a 3 year delay. And Hamas is providing the evidence.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Failed Obama & Biden playbook: Iran, Hezbollah and/or Hamas attack Israel. Israel responds. Washington pressures Israel to stand down and warns against “escalation.”

The lesson learned is that aggression carries limited costs.

Are we watching the same mistake play out again?

[Abe @abegordon42]

Healthy political pressure. Fuck trump, he can’t hold Israel hostage.

[Shin @hey_itsmyturn]

Pretty much, IF [again: IFFFF] Israel doesn't respond, Avigdor and Naftali will eat Bibi for breakfast.

[Abe @abegordon42]

Mossad need to spy on Tom Barrack if they aren’t already.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I’d be very interested to see if Tom Barrack had a role in this, too.

[Abe @abegordon42]

Typical antizionist. What a pussy 😂

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Zach has never debated me or ever been able to respond to a single criticism of antizionism.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Zach has never debated me or ever been able to respond to a single criticism of antizionism.

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

There Was No Famine in Gaza

[Abe @abegordon42]

New York Knicks

[Abe @abegordon42]

Erick Fedde

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

Amnesty: “Amnesty International considers this [dolus specialis] an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and on that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide…”

Human Rights Watch: did not assess genocidal intent.

UN: did not make this statement, but a Commission of Inquiry did apply the wrong standard of proof and failed to apply the legal test (only reasonable inference).

B’Tselem: “broader analytical framework” to establish genocidal intent.

Genocide experts: no consensus and the IAGS resolution failed on the law.

@AIPAC: Is correct.

If you must change the law to fit your predetermined conclusion, the issue is your conclusion, not the law.

[Abe @abegordon42]

TACO TRUMP

[Abe @abegordon42]

Lmfaoooooooo

[@jason @Jason]

Ayyyyyooooo!

PAUSE!

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

The Racial Coding of the Jew

Like classical antisemitism before it, contemporary antizionism depends on the racial coding of the Jew.

In much of today’s academic and activist discourse, the Jew is coded as white, European, settler, colonial, privileged, and structurally powerful. This coding performs a function. It allows people to remove Jews from the history of Jewish peoplehood, strip them of their ancestral connection to the Levant, and place them instead inside a Western racial framework where they can only appear as oppressors.

This is why the “but Mizrahi Jews exist” argument is bad. Because it tries to answer racism by accepting the quiet underlying assumption that Jewish legitimacy depends on proximity to brownness.

Yes, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ethiopian, Yemenite, Persian, and other Jews exist. But Jews are not non-white only when we can produce the “right” kind of Jew for the antizionist’s ideological courtroom.

A Jew should not have to be brown enough, displaced enough, or visibly exotic enough to be released from the accusation of whiteness.

There is a word for this: racialization.

It turns Jewish identity into a racial lottery. If your grandparents were expelled to Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Iran, or Syria, your Jewishness may be legible as “indigenous” or “non-European.” And, if your grandparents were exiled to Poland, Germany, Russia, France, or Hungary, your Jewishness is recoded as “white settler colonialism.”

But Jewish exile does not become less real because it passed through Europe. Jewish peoplehood does not become less ancient because some Jews were deported, displaced, or scattered into places later classified as “white.” And Jews do not lose their origin story because their diaspora route was different.

Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite, Persian, and other Jewish communities are not different peoples who accidentally share a religion. We are branches of the same ancient people, shaped by different exiles, host societies, languages, persecutions, and histories of survival.

Those differences should never be weaponized to make Jewish legitimacy depend on skin tone. Because once we accept that categorization, we have already allowed our detractors to define the terms of Jewish identity. And those terms are dangerous.

In Nazi racial ideology, the Jew was not hated because he was too white. He was hated because he was racially inferior, foreign, parasitic, rootless, and contaminating. In contemporary antizionist ideology, the Jew is not hated because he is racially inferior. He is hated because he is recoded as racially dominant, foreign, colonial, artificial, and contaminating.

Same attempt to racially categorize the Jew and place them outside the moral community.

In one framework, the Jew is too alien to belong. In the other, the Jew is too privileged to be harmed. In one, the Jew is a racial threat from below. In the other, the Jew is a racial oppressor from above. But either way, the Jew is not allowed to simply be what Jews are: an ancient people from the Levant, dispersed across the world, carrying a civilization, a memory, a language, a land, a law, a faith, and a peoplehood that long predates the modern racial categories being imposed on us.

This is why antizionism sits in close proximity to racist ideologies. Because a great deal of antizionist discourse depends on a racial fiction: that Jews are not a people from the Levant, but white Europeans who invented indigeneity to justify colonialism.

That ideological fiction erases Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews by treating them as an exception to Jewish identity. And it erases Ashkenazi Jews by treating exile in Europe as proof of European origin. It erases Jewish history by treating diaspora as migration without coercion, dispersion without trauma, and exile without collective memory. It erases the fact that Jews did not become a people in Europe, but carried peoplehood into Europe.

Antizionism still subjects Jewish peoplehood to a racial test.

[Geoff Fienberg @gfienberg17]

I wonder if trading this guy for thousands of third world shit hole jihadists will work out for Canada.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: If referee calls had been correct, the Premier League title race would have entered the final match round with Manchester City two points clear of Arsenal, according to our analysis of key match decisions. https://t.co/FSWGZMMBRL

[Radu Cristian @raducrisanx]

Confirmed as a robbed title, a VAR manufactured affair, that's brought great shame to the game.

@PGMOL_FA have ultimately made the fraudulent decision to place an undeserving champion in an undeserving position.

The UCL final referee has exposed them to the world.

Frauds.

[Armin Rosen @ArminRosen]

It's amazing, every president of the 21st century, regardless of party or ideology, has stepped in to rescue Hezbollah from the Israelis at some point or another https://t.co/cns7HpiHwN

[Abe @abegordon42]

Beirut

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

Once more for those in the back: Antizionism is for losers.