Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
"Make America Goy Again". The image could be decoded as: "forcefully remove all the #IdentityJewish people to make America great again". According to this reading, #PleaMAGA supporters are aligned to #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler and in advocating the use of the #IdentityJewishHebrew #OtheringOutGroupGoy (which although it essentially means 'not-Jewish' - through its supposed pejorative appropriation by #SlurWhiteSupremacy groups), #PleaMAGA.s in this context are shown to be #OtheringHateAntisemitism.ic.
Context "The Hebrew word 'goy' literally means 'nation.' So the 'Goyim' are the 'nations.' And, in the Jewish vernacular, a 'Goy' is someone from 'the nations' i.e. not Jewish. White supremacists, for their twisted part, use the term to refer to non-Jews who, according to the racist world view, are tools of some imagined Jewish conspiracy." https://forward.com/life/381035/why-i-wont-stop-using-the-term-goy/ And https://forward.com/life/380684/goyim-origin-goy-usage/
Supplementary A reverse-image search brought back two references to GoyimTV, which according to this, is part the #OrgSyndicateTerrorismUSGoyimDefenseLeagueGDL i.e. "The Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism. The group includes five or six primary organizers/public figures, dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers. GDL operates GoyimTV, a video platform that streams antisemitic content. GDL espouses vitriolic antisemitism and white supremacist themes via the internet, through propaganda distributions and in street actions. GDL engages in antisemitic stunts and schemes to troll or otherwise harass Jews. GDL's most zealous and visible actors are in California, Colorado, Florida and New York." [Anti-Defamation League] #BrandTechSocialMediaAltGoyimTV https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemitic-incidents-46/the-anti-semitic-site-behind-the-jews-want-a-race-war-highway-banner-was-removed-from-the-internet-but-another-quickly-took-its-place
Context "The Hebrew word 'goy' literally means 'nation.' So the 'Goyim' are the 'nations.' And, in the Jewish vernacular, a 'Goy' is someone from 'the nations' i.e. not Jewish. White supremacists, for their twisted part, use the term to refer to non-Jews who, according to the racist world view, are tools of some imagined Jewish conspiracy." https://forward.com/life/381035/why-i-wont-stop-using-the-term-goy/ And https://forward.com/life/380684/goyim-origin-goy-usage/
Supplementary A reverse-image search brought back two references to GoyimTV, which according to this, is part the #OrgSyndicateTerrorismUSGoyimDefenseLeagueGDL i.e. "The Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism. The group includes five or six primary organizers/public figures, dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers. GDL operates GoyimTV, a video platform that streams antisemitic content. GDL espouses vitriolic antisemitism and white supremacist themes via the internet, through propaganda distributions and in street actions. GDL engages in antisemitic stunts and schemes to troll or otherwise harass Jews. GDL's most zealous and visible actors are in California, Colorado, Florida and New York." [Anti-Defamation League] #BrandTechSocialMediaAltGoyimTV https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemitic-incidents-46/the-anti-semitic-site-behind-the-jews-want-a-race-war-highway-banner-was-removed-from-the-internet-but-another-quickly-took-its-place
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@AntwanDebauche [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [45]: & THE 1 #WORLD-LEADER, OF Revelation 13:2 & Daniel 7:4-7 (KJV-#English, HSV=#Dutch, #TANAKH-#ISRAEL-#JEWS-#Hebrew) WILL BE #ANTICHRIST(=MACRON, KUSHNER, #POOP-LUCIFER-FRANCIS, OR SOME1 ELSE-ETC?!?) OF THE SATAN'S-NWO-#WOKE-GREAT RESET-ETC-#MUMBO-#JUMBO-FREAKS-#WORLDWIDE PEOPLE!!! [URL redacted]
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@LaciBordon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : What happens when the #progressive #woke #antiIsrael virus infects your brain: [URL redacted]
#NewspaperUSTabloidTheNoeValleyVoice [Muckrack] "Graffiti at the Chabad House. Editor: As the father of two young Jewish children I too abhor the graffiti left on the gate of the Chabad House pre-school. Nothing can justify such actions. But we have to be morally blind and deaf to not understand the anger behind them. That anger stems from decades of our government's political and military support for an increasingly belligerent, apartheid state of Israel, whose government is committed to the doctrine of Zionism which in practice has meant for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people. Like Senator Wiener and Supervisor Mandelman I believe we should call out any and all acts of anti-semitism. But we should just as loudly call out the inhuman actions of the government of Israel against the Palestinians and demand our government to sever ties with the Jewish state until it pledges itself committed to the equality of all people within its borders. Our city and region was one of the first in the country to stand up against apartheid in South Africa. Unfortunately at all levels of government our current elected officials have remained silent against apartheid and genocide in Israel/Palestine. Now is the time we, private citizens and politicians alike, need to fully recognize the humanity of the Palestinian people. And until we end our military and moral support to Israel the blood shed by the Palestinians will be on our own hands." [pdf]
#PhenomnCulturalExpressionGraffiti
#BeliefTheismJudaismHasidicChabadHouse
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaSouthernSanDiego
#PoliticsNationalismJewishZionism
#OtheringHateAntisemitism
#PoliticsFascismNazi
#EDUUSSanDiegoStateUniversitySDSU
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyScottWiener [Wikipedia]
#IRLPublicOfficialRafaelMandelman [Wikipedia]
#ToponymEastMiddlePalestine
#PowerControlSegregationApartheid
#PhenomnGenocideEthnicCleansing
Context https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2021/03/12/latest-anti-semitic-graffiti-at-sdsu-roils-jewish-community-stirs-plans-for-action/
Supplementary #WebsiteDoubleDownNewsDDN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwsKBBFG728 #VlogTheKatieHalperShowKatieHalper [Wikipedia] "There's literally nothing that Israel won't do in the name of vengeance and in the name of continuing Zionism. For some people the takeaway is: as long as they're not literally putting people in ovens as long as they're not doing exactly what the Nazis did that somehow that's okay, it's actually not okay. Never Again doesn't mean: Never Again in the exact same way that the Nazis did it, if that's your take away from the Holocaust you really need to look at yourself and do some soul searching. I'm Jewish I lost members of my family during the Holocaust and the truth is Israel does not represent me Israel does not make me safer in fact it puts me and all Jews in greater danger. Because as Israel commits these crimes against humanity and live streams them and in some cases gleefully live streams them we've seen soldiers doing this. Israel doing that and saying it's in the name of Jews that will create anti-Semitism. The idea that Israel represents all Jews is in itself an antisemitic idea the dual loyalty trope says that all Jews are monolith and we're all loyal to Israel and we can't be trusted to be loyal to other governments regardless of where we live. That is really what Israel is leaning into and you have antisemites and then the government of Israel AIPAC and the ADL all making the same argument which I think really shows you the dangers and the inherent anti-Semitism of Zionism. People like to claim that anti-Zionism is antisemitic well it's actually not given that you literally have more Christian Zionist in the world then you have Jewish Zionists. This particular Christian form of Zionism wants Jews to go back to Israel so we can provoke the end times, Armageddon. All Jews except a very lucky 400 who accept Christ as their lord and saviour burn for all of eternity so these are the Allies. All these cancel culture warriors who talk about right-wingers being cancelled are very silent interestingly enough when it comes to critics of Israel who are probably the most cancelled people of all. If you're a Palestinian critic of Israel you're very, very, very cancelled if you're a Jewish critic of Israel you're less cancelled but you're still cancelled you're just cancelled as a self-loathing Jew as opposed to an antisemite which is a significant difference. I mean I was fired by a network for saying that Israel is an apartheid state so my being Jewish didn't really protect me. And of course there's a huge bias in the way that corporate media reports on Israel Palestine they're very clear when Russia does something Russia bombs Russia strikes Russia kills when it's Israel it's often Palestinians killed in attack Palestinians dead after bombing we even know that networks and Outlets instruct their writers and reporters not to use certain words like genocide not even to use the word Palestine in fact the reporting by the New York Times on the alleged Mass rape used by Hamas was so bad that they had to cancel a podcast that they were going to do about it because there was so little to back it up now on the other hand you have countless stories and allegations of Israelis raping Palestinians that got totally ignored it's really fascinating that we hear time and time again about the 40 beheaded Israeli babies even though there was no evidence of that and we do have evidence of actually beheaded babies children with their heads blown off I mean we saw a child literally shredded various representatives of the Israeli government are never asked about that they're never asked to condemn Israel's violence they're never asked to condemn Israel's terroristism there was a doctor who was tortured to death if you don't already feel disturbed by the images of Palestinians or the stories of Palestinians the story of hin RAB who was left in a car to die when she was begging for help and Israeli soldiers shot up the car and shot up the ambulance trying to rescue this girl if that doesn't haunt you I would really urge you to imagine this happening to a Jewish child during the Holocaust I think that Jews should understand this if anything more than other people because of our history of being targeted of being otherized of being compared to Vermin of attempted extermination of genocide and ethnic cleansing and of the world looking the other way that is something that we have to remember that happened to us we can't let that happen to other people that's not Justice that's not how we honour those killed in the Holocaust everything that Israel tells you about its founding about its history and about its role today is a lie some people think oh Israel was founded for Holocaust Survivors and then it got greedy and took over too much land and and ruined its founding Mission which was to be a safe haven for juice the truth is it was founded on ethnic cleansing it was not a Utopia I think it's really eye opening to look at the actual language of early Zionists because they were calling their Banks Colonial trusts they were talking about how natives always resist colonists in other words it's not just critics of Zionism who describe Zionism as Colonial it was designs themselves Israeli Society really had a lot of disdain for Holocaust Survivors so they did something very disgusting they both weaponized the Holocaust to justify their extermination of Palestinians and they mistreated Holocaust survivors in fact they even refer to them as sapon which means soap in Hebrew and that was because there was a myth that Nazis turned Jewish bodies into soap it's not true but that was a myth and the important thing is that people thought that was true and they thought it would be appropriate to call survivors by that name Israel wanted to create a new Jew that was armed that was working the land they were ashamed of the Jews who were killed they thought that they went to their slaughter like sheep they were ashamed of Jews who were religious Jews who were Scholars Jews who were also cosmopolitan they really did ironically internalize a lot of anti-Semitism there were Zionist bombings in the Middle East that were used to scare people into immigrating out of Iraq out of Morocco and into Israel that's how little they cared about Jewish people they bombed synagogues in order to get people to leave the Middle East and go to Israel where they would be mistreated which is what happened to Mizrahi Jews some were basically put into camps they rejected Yiddish which was spoken by Eastern European and diasporic Jews and they also rejected Arabic which was spoken by Mizrahi Jews of the Middle East Yiddish is an amazing language and it's dying out and the reason it's dying out is because Israel chose to create modern Hebrew which no one spoke and they had a lot of disdain for a lot of Jewish culture so Israel has always been a racist project in many ways against Palestinians but even against Jews themselves and it's been an antisemitic project as well not only is Judaism obviously much older than Zionism but there was Christian Zionism from the very beginning and that was fuelled by anti-Semitism and the desire to get Jews out of Europe Lord Balfour of the Balfour Declaration was a major antisemite Zionism actually requires anti-Semitism to justify its existence so for Zionists they don't want to defeat anti-Semitism they want to use it to strengthen the state of Israel it's also true to remember that this is not a conflict about religion or culture Jews and Christians and Muslims lived in peace in harmony in many areas of the Middle East for centuries this is about power this is about land this goes back to resources this goes back to the West wanting to have a foothold in the Middle East this is not about religion Jewish anti-Zionism has existed since Zionism a lot of Jews opposed Zionism because they I would say rightly predicted it would create anti-Semitism there is a very rich radical history of Jewish internationalism during the Spanish Civil War which many people see as the dry run for World War II among all the international brigades so all the volunteers who left their countries to fight in a war against fascism the most common language spoken was Yiddish which speaks to this tradition if we look at so many struggles like the civil rights movement in the United States there were lots of Jews involved in that Jewish people were over represented in that movement if you look at South Africa some of the most active anti-apartheid activists were Jewish that's the tradition that I'm proud to be part of not a tradition which weaponizes trauma tragedy and the Holocaust to kill more people Israel is unsustainable there's no coming back from this something new needs to be created Jews can live side by side with Muslims and Christians in Palestine just as they have for centuries if coexistence is so impossible and if anti-Semitism is so impossible to fight against how is it that Jews live in Germany today Germany was where anti-Semitism turned into the Holocaust cost and yet somehow Jews are able to live in Germany in safety but we're supposed to believe that they can't live in Palestine in safety Palestine is not the country that created Adolf Hitler Palestine is not the country that created the Holocaust the biggest threat to Jewish safety is not a free Palestine it's Zionism it's essential to challenge the lies and propaganda of mainstream." #PhenomnHolocaustShoah #CatchcryNeverAgain [Wikipedia] #PhenomnGenocide #LiteralImpartialityDualLoyalty #AdvocacyUSAntiDefamationLeagueADL #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyRaptureEndOfDaysEndOfTimes #CatchcryCancelCulture #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #AdvocacyUSAmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommitteeAIPAC #OrgPSHamas #PowerControlViolationRape #IRLDeceasedHindRamiIyadRajab [Wikipedia] #OtheringDenialDehumanizationVermin #PhenomnGenocideEthnicCleansing #PhenomnColonialism #BrandJewishColonialTrustJCT https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-colonial-trust https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-soap-allegations #NarrativeTruthFabricationSoapMadeFromHumanCorpses [Wikipedia] #IdentityJewishMizrahi [Wikipedia] #LiteralLanguageYiddish [Wikipedia] #IdentityJewishHebrew [Wikipedia] #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #IRLHistoricalFigureArthurBalfour [Wikipedia] #NarrativeWarSpanishCivil [Wikipedia] #NarrativeWarWWII #CauseCivilRightsMovement #ToponymAfricaSouthernSouthAfrica #ToponymEuropeGermany #BehaviourTolerance #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHillRising [Wikipedia] #MagazineUSJacobinBrankoMarcetic "For all the strides the Palestinian cause has made in terms of American sympathies, criticism of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinians is still the major taboo in US political discourse. Just look at what happened to Katie Halper this week." https://jacobin.com/2022/10/hill-rising-katie-halper-israel-palestine-fired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7d4Qa8M6I #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyRashidaTlaib #AdvocacyUSAntiDefamationLeagueADLJonathanGreenblatt #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDebbieWassermanSchultz
Context https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2021/03/12/latest-anti-semitic-graffiti-at-sdsu-roils-jewish-community-stirs-plans-for-action/
Supplementary #WebsiteDoubleDownNewsDDN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwsKBBFG728 #VlogTheKatieHalperShowKatieHalper [Wikipedia] "There's literally nothing that Israel won't do in the name of vengeance and in the name of continuing Zionism. For some people the takeaway is: as long as they're not literally putting people in ovens as long as they're not doing exactly what the Nazis did that somehow that's okay, it's actually not okay. Never Again doesn't mean: Never Again in the exact same way that the Nazis did it, if that's your take away from the Holocaust you really need to look at yourself and do some soul searching. I'm Jewish I lost members of my family during the Holocaust and the truth is Israel does not represent me Israel does not make me safer in fact it puts me and all Jews in greater danger. Because as Israel commits these crimes against humanity and live streams them and in some cases gleefully live streams them we've seen soldiers doing this. Israel doing that and saying it's in the name of Jews that will create anti-Semitism. The idea that Israel represents all Jews is in itself an antisemitic idea the dual loyalty trope says that all Jews are monolith and we're all loyal to Israel and we can't be trusted to be loyal to other governments regardless of where we live. That is really what Israel is leaning into and you have antisemites and then the government of Israel AIPAC and the ADL all making the same argument which I think really shows you the dangers and the inherent anti-Semitism of Zionism. People like to claim that anti-Zionism is antisemitic well it's actually not given that you literally have more Christian Zionist in the world then you have Jewish Zionists. This particular Christian form of Zionism wants Jews to go back to Israel so we can provoke the end times, Armageddon. All Jews except a very lucky 400 who accept Christ as their lord and saviour burn for all of eternity so these are the Allies. All these cancel culture warriors who talk about right-wingers being cancelled are very silent interestingly enough when it comes to critics of Israel who are probably the most cancelled people of all. If you're a Palestinian critic of Israel you're very, very, very cancelled if you're a Jewish critic of Israel you're less cancelled but you're still cancelled you're just cancelled as a self-loathing Jew as opposed to an antisemite which is a significant difference. I mean I was fired by a network for saying that Israel is an apartheid state so my being Jewish didn't really protect me. And of course there's a huge bias in the way that corporate media reports on Israel Palestine they're very clear when Russia does something Russia bombs Russia strikes Russia kills when it's Israel it's often Palestinians killed in attack Palestinians dead after bombing we even know that networks and Outlets instruct their writers and reporters not to use certain words like genocide not even to use the word Palestine in fact the reporting by the New York Times on the alleged Mass rape used by Hamas was so bad that they had to cancel a podcast that they were going to do about it because there was so little to back it up now on the other hand you have countless stories and allegations of Israelis raping Palestinians that got totally ignored it's really fascinating that we hear time and time again about the 40 beheaded Israeli babies even though there was no evidence of that and we do have evidence of actually beheaded babies children with their heads blown off I mean we saw a child literally shredded various representatives of the Israeli government are never asked about that they're never asked to condemn Israel's violence they're never asked to condemn Israel's terroristism there was a doctor who was tortured to death if you don't already feel disturbed by the images of Palestinians or the stories of Palestinians the story of hin RAB who was left in a car to die when she was begging for help and Israeli soldiers shot up the car and shot up the ambulance trying to rescue this girl if that doesn't haunt you I would really urge you to imagine this happening to a Jewish child during the Holocaust I think that Jews should understand this if anything more than other people because of our history of being targeted of being otherized of being compared to Vermin of attempted extermination of genocide and ethnic cleansing and of the world looking the other way that is something that we have to remember that happened to us we can't let that happen to other people that's not Justice that's not how we honour those killed in the Holocaust everything that Israel tells you about its founding about its history and about its role today is a lie some people think oh Israel was founded for Holocaust Survivors and then it got greedy and took over too much land and and ruined its founding Mission which was to be a safe haven for juice the truth is it was founded on ethnic cleansing it was not a Utopia I think it's really eye opening to look at the actual language of early Zionists because they were calling their Banks Colonial trusts they were talking about how natives always resist colonists in other words it's not just critics of Zionism who describe Zionism as Colonial it was designs themselves Israeli Society really had a lot of disdain for Holocaust Survivors so they did something very disgusting they both weaponized the Holocaust to justify their extermination of Palestinians and they mistreated Holocaust survivors in fact they even refer to them as sapon which means soap in Hebrew and that was because there was a myth that Nazis turned Jewish bodies into soap it's not true but that was a myth and the important thing is that people thought that was true and they thought it would be appropriate to call survivors by that name Israel wanted to create a new Jew that was armed that was working the land they were ashamed of the Jews who were killed they thought that they went to their slaughter like sheep they were ashamed of Jews who were religious Jews who were Scholars Jews who were also cosmopolitan they really did ironically internalize a lot of anti-Semitism there were Zionist bombings in the Middle East that were used to scare people into immigrating out of Iraq out of Morocco and into Israel that's how little they cared about Jewish people they bombed synagogues in order to get people to leave the Middle East and go to Israel where they would be mistreated which is what happened to Mizrahi Jews some were basically put into camps they rejected Yiddish which was spoken by Eastern European and diasporic Jews and they also rejected Arabic which was spoken by Mizrahi Jews of the Middle East Yiddish is an amazing language and it's dying out and the reason it's dying out is because Israel chose to create modern Hebrew which no one spoke and they had a lot of disdain for a lot of Jewish culture so Israel has always been a racist project in many ways against Palestinians but even against Jews themselves and it's been an antisemitic project as well not only is Judaism obviously much older than Zionism but there was Christian Zionism from the very beginning and that was fuelled by anti-Semitism and the desire to get Jews out of Europe Lord Balfour of the Balfour Declaration was a major antisemite Zionism actually requires anti-Semitism to justify its existence so for Zionists they don't want to defeat anti-Semitism they want to use it to strengthen the state of Israel it's also true to remember that this is not a conflict about religion or culture Jews and Christians and Muslims lived in peace in harmony in many areas of the Middle East for centuries this is about power this is about land this goes back to resources this goes back to the West wanting to have a foothold in the Middle East this is not about religion Jewish anti-Zionism has existed since Zionism a lot of Jews opposed Zionism because they I would say rightly predicted it would create anti-Semitism there is a very rich radical history of Jewish internationalism during the Spanish Civil War which many people see as the dry run for World War II among all the international brigades so all the volunteers who left their countries to fight in a war against fascism the most common language spoken was Yiddish which speaks to this tradition if we look at so many struggles like the civil rights movement in the United States there were lots of Jews involved in that Jewish people were over represented in that movement if you look at South Africa some of the most active anti-apartheid activists were Jewish that's the tradition that I'm proud to be part of not a tradition which weaponizes trauma tragedy and the Holocaust to kill more people Israel is unsustainable there's no coming back from this something new needs to be created Jews can live side by side with Muslims and Christians in Palestine just as they have for centuries if coexistence is so impossible and if anti-Semitism is so impossible to fight against how is it that Jews live in Germany today Germany was where anti-Semitism turned into the Holocaust cost and yet somehow Jews are able to live in Germany in safety but we're supposed to believe that they can't live in Palestine in safety Palestine is not the country that created Adolf Hitler Palestine is not the country that created the Holocaust the biggest threat to Jewish safety is not a free Palestine it's Zionism it's essential to challenge the lies and propaganda of mainstream." #PhenomnHolocaustShoah #CatchcryNeverAgain [Wikipedia] #PhenomnGenocide #LiteralImpartialityDualLoyalty #AdvocacyUSAntiDefamationLeagueADL #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyRaptureEndOfDaysEndOfTimes #CatchcryCancelCulture #BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #AdvocacyUSAmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommitteeAIPAC #OrgPSHamas #PowerControlViolationRape #IRLDeceasedHindRamiIyadRajab [Wikipedia] #OtheringDenialDehumanizationVermin #PhenomnGenocideEthnicCleansing #PhenomnColonialism #BrandJewishColonialTrustJCT https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-colonial-trust https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-soap-allegations #NarrativeTruthFabricationSoapMadeFromHumanCorpses [Wikipedia] #IdentityJewishMizrahi [Wikipedia] #LiteralLanguageYiddish [Wikipedia] #IdentityJewishHebrew [Wikipedia] #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #IRLHistoricalFigureArthurBalfour [Wikipedia] #NarrativeWarSpanishCivil [Wikipedia] #NarrativeWarWWII #CauseCivilRightsMovement #ToponymAfricaSouthernSouthAfrica #ToponymEuropeGermany #BehaviourTolerance #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHillRising [Wikipedia] #MagazineUSJacobinBrankoMarcetic "For all the strides the Palestinian cause has made in terms of American sympathies, criticism of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinians is still the major taboo in US political discourse. Just look at what happened to Katie Halper this week." https://jacobin.com/2022/10/hill-rising-katie-halper-israel-palestine-fired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7d4Qa8M6I #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyRashidaTlaib #AdvocacyUSAntiDefamationLeagueADLJonathanGreenblatt #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDebbieWassermanSchultz
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functional/utilitarian conception of #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity
#TauntBrainwashed #PleaUnlearning
#CaricaturistAntonioBranco
#MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation
Supplementary #NewspaperUSOnlineInsideHigherEdRobertWeisbuch "As a leading example, if extremist Muslims now selectively and reductively read the Koran to justify massacres, sexism, intolerance and slavery, our own extremist Christians now selectively and reductively scan the Hebrew and Christian Bibles in just the same way to promulgate just the same rationalizations of evil. Holy books present a full spectrum of attitudes, and international and national conflict today is fueled by choosing the most illiberal passages as the sole word of Allah/God. Millions of people now follow tyrants, justified, they believe, by their 'anger' -- the new euphemism for irrational hatred. What's threatened by the new savagery is not just the college campus but also the Enlightenment in its most capacious sense: the values of skepticism, empiricism, scientific and philosophic rigor, and the tolerance that affords individual liberties. Even objections to Enlightenment values -- that they ignore the irrational or mask self-interest -- can be considered only in a setting established by those values. Such values -- the ones that our national founders signed onto in the Declaration of Independence and that undergird higher education as a guarantor of the republic and of human dignity -- are under a special intensity of attack while we academics seem preoccupied with the little stuff. The biggest and worst surprise of my life has been this worldwide regression to bigoted ignorance and the gullibility or desperation that has enabled that ignorance such noxious success. Perhaps it was my own gullibility that had led me to assume the forward march of humanity toward a sunny spirit guided by reason. But all over the world they are turning out the lights." https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/05/values-liberal-arts-and-enlightenment-are-under-attack-essay #BeliefTheismIslamismQuran #BeliefTheismChristianityBible #IdentityJewishHebrew #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
Supplementary #NewspaperUSOnlineInsideHigherEdRobertWeisbuch "As a leading example, if extremist Muslims now selectively and reductively read the Koran to justify massacres, sexism, intolerance and slavery, our own extremist Christians now selectively and reductively scan the Hebrew and Christian Bibles in just the same way to promulgate just the same rationalizations of evil. Holy books present a full spectrum of attitudes, and international and national conflict today is fueled by choosing the most illiberal passages as the sole word of Allah/God. Millions of people now follow tyrants, justified, they believe, by their 'anger' -- the new euphemism for irrational hatred. What's threatened by the new savagery is not just the college campus but also the Enlightenment in its most capacious sense: the values of skepticism, empiricism, scientific and philosophic rigor, and the tolerance that affords individual liberties. Even objections to Enlightenment values -- that they ignore the irrational or mask self-interest -- can be considered only in a setting established by those values. Such values -- the ones that our national founders signed onto in the Declaration of Independence and that undergird higher education as a guarantor of the republic and of human dignity -- are under a special intensity of attack while we academics seem preoccupied with the little stuff. The biggest and worst surprise of my life has been this worldwide regression to bigoted ignorance and the gullibility or desperation that has enabled that ignorance such noxious success. Perhaps it was my own gullibility that had led me to assume the forward march of humanity toward a sunny spirit guided by reason. But all over the world they are turning out the lights." https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/05/values-liberal-arts-and-enlightenment-are-under-attack-essay #BeliefTheismIslamismQuran #BeliefTheismChristianityBible #IdentityJewishHebrew #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
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