danielbenami

Author and commentator. Checkout my website on anti-Semitism and do subscribe if you like it:

[danielbenami @danielbenami]

Delighted to have redesigned my Radicalism of fools website to make its distinctive goal of rethinking anti-Semitism immediately apparent. Please become a subscriber if you are interested #antisemitism https://t.co/9JNxjCGrsp

[danielbenami @danielbenami]

@JakeWSimons I would say a better formulation is that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. Both anti-Zionism and old style anti-Semitism have at their heart the idea that Jews embody evil. Even where the tropes differ.

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@davelawson35 @MichaelRosenYes @simon_schama It is peculiar to hold then up as a contemporary model given their terrible fate. That suggests to me they were at least doing something wrong.

[danielbenami @danielbenami]

@LoinDuTribu @MichaelRosenYes @simon_schama The Bund was also a political movement. And one that completely failed to meet its objectives.

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@MichaelRosenYes @simon_schama You can call yourself Jewish Socialists but you are holding up as a model a movement that ended up being slaughtered by Nazis and Communists.

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

"What is it that today’s neo-Bundists, devoid of any contextual historical understanding, are trying to accomplish? A reversal of this reality? And what, in practice, would that look like?"
https://t.co/MC0ZWUZ20g

[danielbenami @danielbenami]

My latest for the Radicalism of fools. On the West's key weakness in combatting Iran and other Islamist forces.
https://t.co/mRRhjGBbfK

[(((LDH))) @ldhasson]

@ElliotMalin @SpencerGuard Here it is...

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The Bund rejected Zionism. The Bund were all killed by Nazis and communists. For the vast majority of the Jews of the Eastern Hemisphere, the only survival and freedom they could find -- after trying every other imaginable option -- was Zionism.

Zionism is big and diverse and complex and beautiful. Zionism is also the product of a vast, unspeakable tragedy.

The Bund *should* have been able to build an interesting and flourishing Jewish world all its own, in the "hereness" of Eastern Europe. And in a better world, the Bund would have. But this isn't that world.

In this world, the Nazi war on the millenia-old European Jewish civilization was successful, the Jews of Europe were wiped out -- and old ideas that once animated Nazis and Stalinists in their murder of Bundists have now returned into fashion on left and right and gone looking once more for the Jews.

Is there a word that describes a Jew so pitiably afraid of the current whirlwind of hatred that they choose to build a fake past to live in, just so they can pretend that Jews ever had an alternative to Zionism?

The Bund's story, like Molly Crabapple's ahistorical polemics, is merely one more data point demonstrating that Zionism's case is actually -- tragically, in fact -- impregnable. That it is a story of the transformation of catastrophic annihilation into triumphant freedom and survival.

[Frank Furedi @Furedibyte]

The most distinct and important accomplishment of contemporary antisemitism is to gain a degree of public acceptance for the claim that a Jew can never be a victim. Whether this claim is justified on the ground that ‘you had it coming because of Gaza’ or because ‘you are the illegitimate beneficiary of Golders Greed’ does not matter. Depriving Jewish suffering of any moral significance is central to the narrative promoted through the current antisemitic zeitgeist.

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[danielbenami @danielbenami]

My latest for the Radicalism of fools. On why it is wrong to cast anti-Semitism as the oldest hatred. It is worse than a hatred and is driven by contemporary forces.
https://t.co/lhWtdTIPrq

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Francesca Albanese just went on a crazy rant against Jews:
• Germany “accepted the Jews.... those who learnt...they need to be superior.”
• “No longer the People of the Book. But the Chosen People...”
• “‘Chosen to dominate’? One may wonder looking at what Israel has become.”

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

What a mind-numbing set of clichés from both Zakaria and Bartov. Like everyone in the legacy media, Zakaria can’t resist the pleasure of exhibiting a Jew who pronounces Zionism a racist, genocidal ideology and repudiates his own people.

And notice Bartov’s incentive structure. If he changes his mind about absolutely anything — farewell the New York Times opinion section, goodbye Fareed Zakaria, lehitraot prestigious academic gatherings, ciao new book deals. Only the rare honest and courageous intellectual would dare change his mind with this set of incentives.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: London’s Nova exhibition to commemorate the Jewish kids massacred on October 7th was removed per police request.

The Met police asked the organizers to take the sign down out of fear of terror attacks on the exhibition.

So grim.

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@YosefDavid9 Sorry to hear you didn't make it.

[danielbenami @danielbenami]

@nicolelampert @stephenpollard @jwomencount2 @StopTheHate_UK Notable I have never seen anyone from the much hyped "Jewish bloc" on such marches ever push back against such rife anti-Semitism.

[Stimme der Vernunft @frei_blick]

Fatal car rammings are now a depressingly common feature of modern German life. https://t.co/eGYHhjo9ad

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

Moments alleged knife attacker is arrested by police and members of the public after stabbing two British Jews in Golders Green.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

This man just tried to kill any Jewish people he could find in Golders Green. Two Jewish men have reportedly been stabbed, let’s pray for their survival.

[Shomrim (North West London) @shomrimlondon]

Knife Attack on Golders Green Road – Suspect Detained by Shomrim and Arrested*

One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.

Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser.

*The male has now been arrested.*

Two victims have been stabbed and are being treated by Hatzola.

The suspect is in custody. Further updates to follow.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

There are unconfirmed reports that two people were stabbed this morning in Jewish heartland Golders Green.

A man has been arrested.

According to @shomrimlondon

*Knife Attack on Golders Green Road – Suspect Detained by Shomrim and Arrested*

One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.

Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser.

*The male has now been arrested.*

Two victims have been stabbed and are being treated by Hatzola.

The suspect is in custody. Further updates to follow.

Will add info when this is confirmed.