Biden is pressuring a ceasefire on Bibi. He tied it to the hostages… at the very end. Eventually he’ll drop that line too.
The writing is beginning to appear on the wall.
אחיי ואחיותיי, be ready. The clock is ticking faster for us here in the West. Know your plan to leave. Figure out the details now. You may not have time otherwise.
I was in the process of reading a truly heinous article justifying Jewish death and calling for more – one of the singularly most antisemitic pieces of writing I have ever read, the sort of thing that portrays “Israelis” as animals that perpetuate violence for the sake of it; how the point of the שמחת תורה war is actually just to “destroy Gaza” (because, implicitly, October 7th doesn't really matter and “Israelis” don't really care about preventing that sort of thing; just killing Palestinians, maybe even drinking their blood too!). I started going through the massive virtual library I've amassed of every possible counterpoint to every possible antisemitic canard (impressively, nearly every single one of which was crammed into a rather small article).
And then I realized my criticism of the article doesn't matter because its author will just walk up to me tomorrow and bash my head in on the street.
Well, maybe not bash my head in. Brain matter gets everywhere, and blood is rather difficult to wash out. He could curb-stomp me, limiting the cosmetic damage to the bottom of his shoe instead of the whole of his wardrobe. Although to be honest, he'd probably just shoot me instead, if we're being realistic. We do live in the United States, after all.
To the antisemite reading this: yes, all three of those things have happened, will happen, and are happening to Jews in the United States right now. It's funny how you simultaneously want to deny that you're murdering Jews in America while also celebrating Jewish death as a core part of your personality. It's almost like there's some part of you that recognizes that maybe killing Jews for being Jewish is just kind of wrong! But you'd never admit that to yourself. If you did, you wouldn't be trying to bash my head in on the street.
To the Jews and friends thereof reading this: the problem with speaking truth is that you cannot and will not win the argument. I'm not talking about the existence of cognitive biases that cause people to bend over backwards to try and convince you, the Jewish person, that actually a permanent ceasefire is a good thing that would definitely not kill you and your entire family.
I'm talking about the fact that you will tell someone the Jewish people have been around for 4,000 years in the Land of Israel and their response to that will be to shoot you pointblank with a Glock 19.
I'm talking about the fact that while you debate some neo-Nazi Kremlin shill about the fact that Hamas deliberately disobeys the laws of warfare to make it impossible for Israel to avoid massive numbers of civilian deaths, that same guy you're debating is actively planning for the next “pro-Palestinian” protest he's going to, during which time he will participate in chants such as “Please, God, have Hamas kill every single Jew on the face of the Earth!” (Sanitized form: “Ceasefire Now!”); “The Jews can't be indigenous to Israel because only human beings can be indigenous to places!” (Sanitized form: “Palestine is Arab”; in English rendered as “Palestine will be free”); and “You murderous kike!” (Sanitized form: “You murderous kike!”).
I'm talking about the fact that you can tell the international community that you imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip because (meaning, after) a violent terrorist organization whose charter says “hey let's go kill some Jews!” took over the place and the response to that will be to celebrate when that same terrorist organization comes over the fence and murders you and your entire family, doing all the legwork for said community.
I'm talking about the fact that there is literally no point in debating these people because they want to fucking murder you, your entire family, me, my entire family, and every single other member of the racial and ethnic group they call Jews. You are not going to disabuse them of that notion because it's not an incorrect belief. There are no number of facts that will change their minds on the issue of Jewish death. You cannot tell an antisemite the value Jews give his country to make him less antisemitic. You cannot tell an antisemite that his favorite conspiracy theories that retroactively justify his desire to kill Jews are all wrong to make him less antisemitic. You're not Daryl fucking Davis because even if you happen to be Black, you're still a fucking Jew! And guess what all these people believe? That as much as Black people may suck; as much as Asian people may suck; as much as Hispanic people Indian people Mexican people White people Xenomorphic people and Declined to Participate people may suck; at least they're not Jewish because somehow those murderous kikes are the ones who set them against us in the first place!
You are going to lose this battle because the pen is not mightier than the sword. The printing press is mightier than the sword. And for the fact that these bastards seem to think we control the entire world economy, it clearly isn't doing much for us when the printing presses constantly talk about how disgusting those murderous kikes Israelis are.
Your speech will never outweigh their violence. Your statements of fact, your call for peace, your deep grief for the circumstances that led you here in the first place, kicking and screaming into a war not a single one of us murderous kikes chose, will be silenced by a single well placed blow to your head.
Stop debating these Nazi fucks and start paying attention to what is happening to Jews in this country. Stop believing that people who want you to die also somehow mysteriously believe in “common humanity” (despite the fact that they quite literally view you as an overgrown cockroach) and buy a goddamn gun (or find a self defense course that lets you bring a knife to a gunfight, because I assure you that it will be a gunfight). Better than all of these things, prepare to get the fuck out.
2,000 years of exile have shown definitively and absolutely that once this far down the rabbit hole, societies don't “come back.” The “Golden Age” you enjoyed before October 7th isn't just dead; it never actually existed! We are currently in the final chapter of the history of the Jews in the United States of America. You know damn well how the history books ends. Get ready to go and pray that you don't have to.
If you're anything like me, then you like this place quite a bit. But all good things come to an end. If your ancestors didn't survive the Holocaust, it's because they didn't know how to read the writing on the wall. That means it's time for you to learn.
The keffiyeh Nazi is still a Nazi, and the Jew who defends him is still a Jew.
That is the lesson which Jonathan Glazer – or perhaps his children – will learn at the hour of their deaths: that apologize as they might for the latest incarnation of the oldest evil on Earth, it will come for them anyway.
Glazer, like most of his self-servingly suicidal disposition, is an Ashkenazi Jew. He passes for “white” in Europe, and despite being Jewish and raised in a Jewish community, he probably feels more “white” than anything else.
He hears stories of the Holocaust – stories like the one told by the film he was awarded for – and doesn’t hear Jewish persecution, but human persecution. He, and all those like him, is the target of Elie Wiesel’s scathing rebuke: “No, the Holocaust was not about ‘man’s inhumanity to man!’ It was about man’s inhumanity to Jews!”
Glazer accepts the appropriation of the Holocaust by the other nations into a shared “human” event, depicting the capacity of “all men” for evil. Two things are implied: one, that somehow, all nations (“humanity”) were affected and harmed by the Holocaust; and two, that any nation could be the victim of a repeat.
The first premise is designed to reduce, and eventually remove, Western guilt for a Western crime. In this realm, it has succeeded. Never has Holocaust denial been more accepted than in the era which Glazer heralds. Never have people cared less about the ability of Jews to live freely and securely than in Glazer’s brave new world. Never have more people been eager to accuse Glazer’s brothers and sisters of the crimes for which they themselves are guilty – Glazer himself supports them.
The second premise is designed to diminish the Holocaust, to prevent it from having any incorrect lesson for the world. It could have happened to anyone, they say, and Glazer nods along. Only it couldn’t have happened to anyone, because it didn’t happen to anyone. It happened to Jews. The Holocaust, in its ruthlessness, in its barbarity, in its complete and utter removal of humanity from its victims, could and did happen to the Jews precisely because we are Jews.
Ironically, the thing which comes closest to actually diminishing the Holocaust is the thing which Glazer readily accuses his brothers and sisters of, but would never think to happen against him: because the Holocaust happened, it is by definition not unique. Because the Holocaust happened, it is possible, and can happen again.
It is precisely this which the West has been preparing for. The seeds, I should note, were planted very long ago. The saplings sprouted on October 7th, and grow more with every day. They are watered by many people, some of whom – like Glazer – speak of “shared humanity.”
Glazer, being a Jew, fails to realize that the others around him who speak freely of “common humanity” do so because they never saw him as a fellow human being.
Glazer, being an assimilated “white” Jew, does not see himself as his white friends see him: the sewer rat which talks like a man, acts like a man, thinks like a man – but is most assuredly not a man. Just a sewer rat.
Glazer, preferring to be educated in the history of all people instead of his people (and for this crime, I hardly blame him, for what grim reading it makes!), has learned exactly the lesson intended for the other nations: that the Jews aren’t so special; that they should just stop whining about that Holocaust all those years back; can’t they just go back to what it was like before, when they all sat like good little ducklings in the other nations’ lands, waiting to be culled?
Glazer learned from the West the lesson they intended for their own children, not him: the Jews are corpses, things you learn about in high school; not really people (although you may know a few, here and there), but representatives of a much larger and more noble thing: dying for the sins of other men. What could be more beautiful, more heart wrenching, or any less Jewish?
Many phrases are said to capture the essence of Judaism. My favorite has always been: choose life. Of all the things to differentiate us from our cousins – our most prolific murderers – that is the most prominent. The extremist Christians emulate their savior’s sacrifice, the jihadi Muslims glorify themselves in death, and the Jews build defense systems to remain alive; clinging to one another in one of the oldest remaining communities on Earth.
Where does the war in Gaza come from? Paradoxically, given the death toll, it comes from that commandment. When asked to choose between martyrdom or living service, the answer has always and will always be: choose life. What is the point of life if not living? What is the point of ending the war, saving tens of thousands of their lives, when almost 10 million of ours will be taken for that “mercy?”
Glazer and people like him: when they speak, they advocate for not just them, but all of us, to die for someone else. For something else. For a higher order ideology that says that there is a price too high to pay for Jewish existence. They look at the current war, the previous wars, our entire modern history in Israel – and they call it worthless; a waste of time and life.
4,000 years of history and they have learned nothing!
The thing that the Jews who choose to live must do, rather than die for Islamofacism, for Arab and white supremacy, for their sins, is simple: learn.
4,000 years of history and the rest of us are somehow surprised at our sudden demotion to second class within the West.
4,000 years of history and the rest of us are somehow discouraged from making aliyah, even though Israel is now safer to be a Jew than anywhere else on the Earth.
4,000 years of history and more French Jews have fled to Israel than British ones, even though it is in Britain where the police openly speak of refusing the enforce the law out of their own cowardice – literally creating a separate injustice system for British Jews. It is not a surprise that Glazer is in this crowd: like frogs sitting in a pot of ever-so-slightly heating water.
The Jews who choose life may be one step removed from the self-selected ignorance of Glazer and his circus, but that will do you no good when you are all thrown into the same burn pit.
The one thing you must do – and the only thing you can do, in the face of Glazer and Co.’s murderous stupidity – is to learn from your past, because it holds the keys to your future. My grandfather understood this so well that he correctly predicted the Holocaust, begged his fellow Polish villagers to come with him to Israel – and only Israel, even though there was no State then! – and when they refused, left without them. They chose to believe in “shared humanity,” and I’m sure that they believed in it right up until the Einsatzgruppen arrived.
My grandfather knew, because he studied our history, not only how to read the writing on the wall, but exactly where to go once that writing appeared. The Jews who did not study our history – or were so assimilated that they viewed it as an abstraction – did neither of those things.
Glazer did not simply fail to read the writing on the wall. He chose to learn the Western apologia for the Holocaust instead of the Jewish history inherent to it. He chose to advocate for Jewish death instead of Jewish life. He chose to blind himself rather than read the writing on the wall, which tells of his death alongside the others. Assimilation, conversion, hiding – Glazer should know and does, on some level, know that he cannot escape being a Jew, no matter how hard he tries.
My brothers and my sisters, you can read the writing on the wall as much as I can. The “good times” in the Diaspora aren’t simply over; they barely even existed. America might not fall as fast as the others, so strong is its constitutional republic. Yet how can any government that calls itself democracy resist the will of its people, when those people will eventually form the majority? As someone once told me, “antisemitism is always and everywhere a populist phenomenon,” and as you probably know by now, not even America is immune to populism.
Be watchful, my brothers and sisters, of what happens next. Assimilation is a poison that first intoxicates (what a rich cultural tradition this nation has!) then aggrandizes (what status I’ve attained in this nation’s society!), and finally placates its victims (I’ve called for a ceasefire; they know I’m not like the other Jews!) so the net can be drawn safely around them.
Do not wait for the water to boil before jumping out of the pot. Do not be seduced by the frogs’ way of thinking: Don’t be so worried; it’ll be all right; we’ve had worse; it could never happen here! Do not, as Glazer and those like him have, fool yourselves into thinking that you can do anything to escape their wrath, for as Sarte put it: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would create him.”
Jews like Glazer think they can live among the Nazis to avoid dying among the Jews. Yet when the Jews come together as Jews, the impossible happens. For the European Jews, the seeds of assimilation bore the fruit of extinction; for the Jews of Israel the Land, and later Israel the State, the seeds of Jewishness bore the fruits of freedom, safety, prosperity, and happiness.
If you can read these words, then it is not too late to learn. History does not repeat itself: it rhymes. There has not been a new form of antisemitism in at least a thousand years: everything you are seeing has been seen before, by eyes quite like yours.
And to those among us who ask: Isn’t this different? Didn’t everyone agree that the Holocaust was bad? Why should we fear another one?
Because the keffiyeh Nazi is still a Nazi, and the Jew who defends him is still a Jew.
“Diasporism” is an ahistorical and sometimes colorist position that advocates the “noncentrality” of Israel to Jewish life, and emphasizes Jewish communities in the diaspora as the “real” carriers of Judaism. It is closely related to, and often leveraged by anti-Zionist groups and individuals. After the October 7th pogrom, some individuals in Jewish and/or anti-Zionist circles began describing Diasporism as a natural response that the Jewish community should embrace in 10/7’s aftermath – which makes sense, since these groups also tend to advocate for the destruction of Israel itself.
Diasporism is ahistorical because it denies the history of the Jewish peoples. Specifically, it ignores the fact that almost every single Jewish diaspora community was destroyed by antisemites throughout history. One of the central tenets of Zionism is that a non-Jewish state – a liberal democracy, a dictatorship, a monarchy, and so on – is inherently incapable of protecting its Jewish population from harm by popular uprisings, and may sometimes participate in the harm itself. While there is plenty of disagreement about other issues within Zionism, this tenet has held true ever since it was first proposed.
Fundamentally, Jews are not safe outside of Israel, and Diasporism neglects this fact. Despite the fact that 10/7 was the worst incident of violence against Jews since the Holocaust, Israel is still safer for Jews than anywhere else in the world. Prior to October 7th, and especially after it, Jews in the diaspora have been subject to repeated violence, discrimination, and hatred. In the diaspora, this is the norm, not the exception – unlike in Israel, where this is the exception, not the norm.
Diasporism is sometimes colorist – meaning that it sometimes exhibits characteristics of racism between members of the same racial group – because the specific historical ideas advanced by Diasporists can negate Mizrachi Jews in favor of Ashkenazi/European Jews. As we mentioned in a previous explainer, anti-Zionism is commonly rooted in an Ashkenazi Jewish perspective that over-emphasizes the history of Jews in the West instead of considering the entire history of Jewish people. When bringing the whole history of the Jews into consideration, it's clear that Diasporism would bring more harm than good to the Jewish community.
TLDR: Diasporism is an ahistorical and sometimes colorist ideology that promotes Jewish outside of Israel as the “real” carriers of Jewish life and culture. It's often used by anti-Zionist groups to justify the destruction of Israel.
If you get most of your news from normal sources, you probably don't know who Genesse Moreno is.
Like Aaron Bushnell, Moreno killed herself in an act of rage against Jews and Israel. Unlike Bushnell, Moreno did so by perpetuating a mass shooting with “Free Palestine” written on her gun. In other words, she committed suicide by cop.
Both of these individuals committed violent protest in “support” of Palestine. Why, then, did Bushnell receive far more media coverage?
The answer lies in the Western-based media bias against Israel and Jews, which has been well documented for some time. For a variety of factors, many mainstream Western publications have internalized antisemitism. As a result, they aim to boost the perception of the anti-Israel side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Sometimes this takes the form of “criticizing” Israel (e.g., repeating false accusations, ignoring proven statements if they do not match an anti-Israel narrative, etc.), but other times it can be found in the choice of media coverage. For example, by covering the least violent anti-Israel individuals – like Bushnell, who (while he did kill himself) at least didn’t try to kill anyone else. In other words, the media covered Bushnell and not Moreno because the latter would give the anti-Israel cause a “bad look.”
While institutionally antisemitic publications have recently published “studies” claiming to show the reverse – that the media is biased for Israel, not against – we know this isn't the case. Take the following examples:
TLDR: You heard about Aaron Bushnell and not Genesse Moreno because some Western-based media companies are systemically biased against Jews and Israel, and reflect these perceptions in their coverage.
Aaron Bushnell was a cult member and U.S. military worker who burned himself to death in front of an Israeli Embassy.
Aaron Bushnell killed himself because he believed that the Jews are committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, and he wanted to spread that belief by committing an extreme act in support of it, which is called “propaganda of the deed”. His belief – that the Jews are committing genocide in Gaza – is rooted in white supremacist thought and antisemitism, as we discussed in a previous explainer.
While it might seem extreme, it’s not unusual for antisemites to kill themselves in order to promote antisemitism: on October 7th, Hamas terrorists who went to certain death in order to kill Jews were venerated around the world by neo-Nazis as “martyrs,” and suicide bombings have long been a preferred method of terrorism against Jewish people around the world. The difference is that Bushnell, while holding the same beliefs, was too cowardly to perpetuate a mass casualty event himself, and knew that other terrorist organizations would do that for him (for example, the Houston mass shooter who wrote “Free Palestine” on her gun).
Bushnell’s choice of method – self-immolation – helped him maximize attention towards his antisemitic beliefs. By imitating civil rights activists facing historical oppression (who would self-immolate as a means of political protest), Bushnell aimed to give his antisemitic beliefs the same coveted status in history, assuming that his fellow neo-Nazis would promote his death and the accompanying message.
Bushnell was correct. His corpse has been weaponized against Jews by many people who advocate for Jewish death under the guise of humanitarian concern. This includes individuals such as Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, a genocidal theocracy which has long campaigned for the slaughter of all Jewish people; Hamas themselves, whose founding charter dedicated the organization to Jewish death; and a litany of antisemitic individuals who disguise their antisemitism as “criticism of Israel” (you can read our previous explainer for more information).
TLDR: Aaron Bushnell killed himself because he wanted to sacrifice his life in order to increase antisemitism and violence against Jews in the United States through “martyrdom” – essentially a more cowardly version of a suicide bombing or mass shooting. Neo-Nazis are celebrating his death because they want more people to support the elimination of all Jews, which is the ultimate goal of people who call for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas.
Anti-Zionism – the position that Jews do not have any right to return to or have any control over their indigenous homeland – doesn’t have very many Jewish adherents. It would seem contradictory for a Jew to renounce the right to return home, or for a Jew to negate the thousands of years of persecution which made it not just good but necessary to return home and establish a Jewish state there. Yet this makes the existence of any anti-Zionist Jews all the more intriguing. What makes them anti-Zionist?
Jews generally hold anti-Zionist beliefs because of three factors:
1. Gaining/Keeping Access to Social Spaces: Jews are widely discriminated against in the United States. A survey found that 1 out of every 4 hiring managers discriminates against Jewish people openly – that is, they're comfortable enough about it to select antisemitic options on a survey. Much has been made of the institutionalized antisemitism of DEI departments across the country, which proliferate workplaces, schools, and other social circles. Protests in every major city include calls for the murder of Jews. In response to these threats, some Jews choose to renounce parts of their identity in order to be more palatable to the outside world. In Jews who wish to remain deeply involved with social circles that have institutionalized antisemitism, this can manifest as the overt rejection of their Jewish identity: specifically, the history of the Jewish people, which must be rejected for anti-Zionism to make sense.
2. Colorism: When the Jews were expelled from Israel by the Romans around 100 A.D., and the region renamed Syria Palaestina, the Jewish community fragmented into multiple subdivisions. These subdivisions steadily migrated all over the world, and one of those subdivisions, the Ashkenazi Jews, formed in the Holy Roman Empire and spread throughout Europe. These Jews comprise the majority of Jews in the United States, such that the vast majority of Jews in the U.S. have not met any Jews besides other Ashkenazis. For that reason, some Jews are more attached to the European community than the Jewish community, and may perceive their fellow Jews as being the Jewish community. As such, Ashkenazi Jews in the West can become detached from Israel and the rest of the Jewish community, embracing ideas like Jewish “colonialism” and “imperialism” in Israel, which is an example of colorism since it embraces “white” Jews as the Jewish people (negating the fact that most Israeli Jews are not only non-“white” but also cannot trace any ancestry to Europe – not to mention that all Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel). If a Jewish person claims that their family died in the Holocaust in order to justify their anti-Zionist beliefs, they probably fall into this category of colorist anti-Zionism.
3. Autoantisemitism: While all anti-Zionist Jews are technically “self-hating” for denying their own ancestry, history, and equal rights for various reasons, autoantisemites are anti-Zionist because they despise their own Jewish identity, not the other way around. They may resent the hatred directed at them by other ethnic groups; internalize the antisemitism of the society in which they live; or believe that they should not have to bear the consequences of being Jewish just because they were born Jewish. For example: Karl Marx (yes, he was Jewish) was openly antisemitic and had antisemitic influences in life. Before recognizing the error of his ways, Theodor Herzl advocated the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity because he thought Jewish culture was inferior, and that assimilation was the only thing that could save the Jews (his seminal work Der Judenstaat contained a full throated denunciation of his earlier beliefs, and kickstarted Zionism as a movement). There are even anecdotes of Jews joining neo-Nazi movements.
Side note: While some anti-Zionist Jews base their position on their interpretations of Judaism, those fringe sects of Judaism are not mainstream, nor do they have many adherents.
TLDR: Jews choose anti-Zionism in order to gain or keep their social status; because they are detached from the Jewish community, or believe their/their family's story represents the Jewish story; or they are autoantisemites (Jews who are actively antisemitic). Rarely, they may adhere to a religious strain that denies Jewish presence in Israel on religious grounds; those strands of faith are not considered Judaism by the vast majority of Jews.
People first began accusing Jews of committing genocide in the late 90s. While the exact details have shifted over time, usually in response to new world events, the core has remained the same: the Jews are committing genocide against whites and/or Arabs by either killing them directly or enacting policies designed to drive them towards extinction.
The key is that these accusations have not once been true, meaning nobody is making these accusations because Jews are committing genocide – they’re making these accusations because they want people to believe that Jews are committing genocide.
The purpose of these ideas is generally to eliminate national guilt for anti-Jewish atrocities, which includes Arab and Palestinian participation in the Holocaust; European collaborationism with Nazi Germany; the American and Canadian shipment of Jews to Nazi Germany; and other examples of deep human cowardice in the face of vast evil. Instead of confronting their distasteful past, people sometimes choose to rewrite history the other way around in order to make them and their ancestors the “good guys.”
For that reason, it makes sense that accusations of Jewish-performed genocide are closely tied to accusations that the Jews themselves faked their own deaths. This includes Holocaust denial and 10/7 denial – the position that these events either didn't happen at all; were performed by the Jews against themselves as a “false flag” attack; or were exaggerated by the Jews for their own personal gain.
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, many people have renewed accusations of Jewish-sponsored genocide in order to provide cover for Hamas’s own genocidal ambitions, supported by systemically antisemitic states which have made formal statements with the accusation and filed charges in international courts. Regardless of who is making the accusation, the origins remain the same: a white supremacist conspiracy theory of Jews replacing “native” populations. That's why Hamas militants have been found to keep copies of Hitler's writings.
(If you want to know why so many pro-Palestinian advocates in America are repeating white supremacist conspiracy theories, read our explainer.)
Just as the Jews have not once in history come close to anything resembling a genocide, the Jews in Israel are not perpetuating a genocide. Military experts have noted the shockingly low ratio of civilian deaths in Gaza given the well documented human shielding tactics of Hamas. The alternative – to avoid killing any civilians at all – is not only impossible in modern warfare, but would prevent the killing of any significant number of Hamas terrorists, which is exactly why people criticize Israel for “excess” civilian casualties (as if there is any “acceptable” number of civilian deaths).
The end goal of the newest accusations – of an “ongoing genocide in Gaza” – is to justify “resistance” against Jews by characterizing them as an “oppressor” group. In America, these efforts have generally succeeded: recent polls have shown upwards of 60% of 18-24 year old Americans believe that Jewish people are oppressors, and a smaller percentage (but still over 50%) agree with the statement that the October 7th pogrom was “justified resistance.” Unsurprisingly, violence against Jews in America and around the world has skyrocketed as a result.
As we explained before, these accusations – despite coming predominantly from activists who call themselves “pro-Palestinians, not neo-Nazis” – are fundamentally rooted in white supremacy and Jew hatred.
TLDR: Neo-Nazis accuse Jews of committing genocide in order to cover up their ancestors' complicity in genocides against Jews; in order to justify past and future genocides against the Jews; and in order to cheapen the word “genocide” so future accusations of genocide levied by Jews against other groups are not taken seriously.
Jews and many outside observers noticed after October 7th that many activists and politicians in America from across the political spectrum were repeating neo-Nazi talking points while advocating against Israel's war on Hamas.
Ideas that were generally understood to be conspiracy theories in those circles before 10/7 – that Jews controlled the U.S. government and the world; that Jews drink the blood of non-Jews or steal their corpses from graves; that Jews are manipulative liars who will do anything to get their way – now hold wide currency. Just take a look at any contemporary “criticism” of Israel and compare it to the basic tenets of antisemitism.
To understand why this is, it's important to understand how disguised antisemitism operates in the U.S.
Disguised antisemitism uses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a cover: falsely accusing Jews in Israel (and their supporters in the U.S.) of crimes such as apartheid (constructing a separate legal system for non-Jewish citizens of Israel, which didn't happen), genocide (which we explained previously), controlling the U.S. government by siphoning funds from Americans (yet failing to levy those same charges against other American allies), etc.
What characterizes disguised antisemitism is that it hardly ever manifests as overt antisemitism – in other words, it's rare for a disguised antisemite to talk about Jewish people. Instead, they replace the word “Jew” with “Zionist” and reference Israel in order to disguise their antisemitism as “criticism of Israel.” The deception becomes obvious when the word “Zionist” is swapped for “Jew,” but the disguised antisemites nonetheless retain plausible deniability with authorities and non-Jews.
To muddy the waters more, after October 7th, many new advocates for Jew hatred claimed that the pogrom was a “natural response” to a (non-existent) “occupation” of Gaza by Israel; that the innocent people murdered by Hamas on October 7th were “complicit in their oppression,” and other nonsense talking points. These advocates bill themselves as pro-Palestinian, which ties their language back to the Nazi roots of the Palestinian national movement.
For example, one of the founders of the Palestinian national movement worked directly with Adolf Hitler to help kill Jews; Hamas militants have been found with copies of Hitler's writings (such as Mein Kampf); and children in Gaza have been and are currently being educated to hate and kill Jews.
While Palestinians were not generally considered white within the neo-Nazi community prior to October 7th, that perception has been gradually shifting with time. For example, some prominent (and “Aryan”) neo-Nazis have publicly converted to Islam despite their perception of Islam as an Arab religion. After October 7th, this process accelerated massively: white supremacist groups began hosting “Solidarity with Palestine” protests and increased anti-Jewish activities. They have attended pro-Palestinian rallies hosted by traditionally “non-white” organizers and lent their support wholeheartedly, indicating that white supremacists no longer consider Arab populations to be beneath them – they may even consider them white.
Coupled with the gradual acceptance of other racial groups into the neo-Nazi movement, it’s clear that white supremacy is no longer advocated by only white people. Antisemitism is especially accessible to non-white individuals, since on the surface it has nothing to do with white supremacy.
Thus, post-October 7th, the differences between neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, and some pro-Palestinians in the United States have become meaningless. All of them are singularly focused on the elimination of Jews worldwide, and it's clear that this focus is resulting in the consolidation of previously-separate ideologies. Historically, these groups have leveraged perceived separations between their ideologies in order to divide and distract outsiders from conducting anti-extremist activities: we are seeing the same effect today, with neo-Nazis claiming to be “pro-Palestinian, not antisemitic” despite holding entirely the same beliefs as historic white supremacist entities.
TLDR: Some American pro-Palestinian advocates are repeating neo-Nazi propaganda because of the Palestinian national movement's historic and current ties to Nazi ideology. They claim it's about Israel, and not Jewish people, because it allows them to repeat antisemitic statements while retaining plausible deniability about their antisemitism. We also know that neo-Naziism is no longer advocated just by white people – Arabs, people of color, and others are being increasingly accepted into these movements. In other words, some American pro-Palestinian advocates repeat neo-Nazi talking points because they are neo-Nazis.
I'm starting this mini-series to expose the tactics and goals underneath some common talking points in today's neo-Nazi playbook.
It is self-evident that city councils passing ceasefire resolutions do not have an impact on wars elsewhere in the world. Or at least, it was self-evident before October 7th. My attempts to find any instance of a city passing a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for example, turned up no results.
So why are some people pressuring their city councils to pass resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Israel/Gaza?
It's actually pretty simple:
To make it clear, when cities adopt a ceasefire stance in the current war, what they're actually adopting is officially-sanctioned antisemitism. A resolution stating “we call for an immediate end to hostilities in the Israel-Gaza conflict” reads normally to the general population, but to the Jew it reads more like “we call for the extermination of the Jews: first in Israel, and eventually everywhere else, because we support Hamas.”
The United States currently does not allow for the adoption of overtly antisemitic laws. The First Amendment, the federal Civil Rights Act, and case law all prevent state-sanctioned discrimination against Jews. But that doesn't mean neo-Nazis in this country have to give up and go home. They can still use their local governments to harass, intimidate, and threaten Jewish people. Neo-Nazis today may not be able to legally declare cities Judenfrei (German word for “free of Jews”), but they can discourage Jewish presences in their cities with these resolutions.
TLDR: Neo-Nazis pressure city officials to adopt ceasefire resolutions in order to remove Jews from those cities, because the Jews understand that a “ceasefire resolution” – having no actual impact on events in the Middle East – is intended purely to send a hateful message towards Jewish people.