So a new guy shows up to one of our public meetings yesterday, after maybe 20 minutes calls someone who he disagrees with a “zog bot”

I tell him not to call people that, bc “zog” originates in neo-nazism and anti-jewish conspiracy theories, say we can talk more after the meeting if need be

He slams his fists on the table and yells “ok zog bot” throws papers on the ground and storms out yelling “no god damn free speech! Zogs got em, zogs got em!”

freeze-peach

Thanks for leaving loser bye

  • ExtimateCookie [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I saw some of my normie friends using some of those tropes out of nowhere. Most people who don’t engage with politics do not bother to go through the nuances of Zionism vs Judaism, and don’t bother to think about the fact that many Jewish people do not support what Israel is doing. The issue is that the political order in the entire world encourages this type of thinking. If you see what Israel has been able to get away with, or how everyone jumps to condemn any act of antisemitism even the ones that are mistakenly labeled as antiemetic because they are anti-Israel, if you hear the words of the Israeli state itself and the majority of politicians then the easiest conclusion is to fall into some antisemitic conspiracy. It takes education, thinking and engaging with political theory to not fall prey to this. That’s just how fucked up the situation is. The choices of the ruling class made antisemitism the path of least resistance that most normies are easily falling into in different degrees.

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    I’m sympathetic to the idea there’s definitely been an increase in anti-semitism in the past 5 years and the chuds certainly have their codified language that has poisoned the well but it’s genuinely overstated and overdiscussed. Just genuinely tired of the Jewish centrism of the suffering of Palestinians. Jews are always at the center of every debate, Palestinians and their culture and their lives are barely given the limelight. It’s always about either evil Israelis or the minority of embarrassed Jews who have almost hallowed positions within proPalestinian movements. Anti-semitism is now given more attention than any other form of persecution and bigotry. I have to go through almost 3 levels of abstraction to discover that Zionist Occupied Government is a neo-nazi trope.

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      I have to go through almost 3 levels of abstraction to discover that Zionist Occupied Government is a neo-nazi trope.

      I envy you. I’ve had the misfortune of hearing Turner Diaries weirdos blaming it for everything from declining white birth rates to feminism.

      Come to think of it, those weirdos did get a lot of FBI backing. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to learn that the ZOG conspiracy theory was deliberately fostered to delegitimize anti-Zionism.

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      Actual Nazi behavior to the point of genocide is happening right now at the hands of Zionist. Anything taking us further from that point is a waste of time.

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        Goes for everyone arguing over the specifics of demographic support (e.g. percentage of Jews worldwide supporting Zionism) when the reality is that it is a white euro settler colonial project and focusing on the demographics of its support serves to absolve non-Jewish white euros of complicity. That is why I get very suspicious of people focusing on the Judaism aspect and not the fact it’s just another colonial apartheid state this time using historic persecution as cover. Take away that aspect and it loses a lot of its sway. It’s white europeans doing white european things.

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          Yes and no. It’s useless to argue over the demographics of the genocide but Israel has a role in this too especially making the focus of the genocide Judaism and right to exist over Arabs. That cannot be ignored but as long as isrealis are also included in the white Europen colonizers then yes.

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                Not all white European Jews are Ashkenazi. But the Jewish population of occupied Palestine is about 80-93% European descent. Almost every split between Ashkenazi and Sephardic

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                  Sephardic Jews as Europeans is bit of a stretch: the vast majority came from the MENA region where their families had lived for centuries and in Israel, secular leadership historically viewed them as arabised and too religioug; they have typically lived in worse conditions than Ashkenazi Jews. It’s like the “are Slavs white” question, the answer depends on the context.

                  But personally I think asking how many Israelis are European is a red herring, Ben-Gvir is a Mizrahi for example and non-Ashkenazi Jews have often been the base for extreme Zionist movements like Kach and Likud. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are like gusanos in a way: their “whiteness” comes from their loyalty to Western hegemony.

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      also, if jews feel so threatened by graffiti or tropes or even lone wolf attacks, and go colonize palestine via a Jewish supremacist ethnostate, the way to deal with that consequence is to make it so they’re unable to go to the ethnostate

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    The proliferation of the term “zog” is absurd to me. Used to be only Turner-Diaries-types would use it. That’s still the case, but now Turner-Diaries-types seem to be a lot more common.


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      It feels like americans especially are primed to default to antisemitism when they don’t have the tools to navigate the difference between judaism and zionism. Like the background radiation of pop culture has a lot of antisemitic tropes that young people might latch on to. Not making excuses for the shithead, but I get why.

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      Yeah, beyond the actual spread of these fascistic ideologies, it’s concerning how a lot of terms and ideas from them get adopted in the mainstream (sometimes in the name of irony, and other times not)

      The antisemitism is particularly noticeable, and it’s really uncomfortable seeing how much of it has poisoned the wells of a lot of vaguely left or pro-Palestine discourse online

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    I would be very careful about these individuals. Someone who uses deeply online language and is willing to show up to confront you in-person is not something you just laugh off.

    Stay safe.

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    If you say “zog” around me I tag you as a probable Nazi and I’m dreading further confirmation, literally never heard it offline from anyone who wasn’t a raging fascist skinhead

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    there was this whole thing with badempanada and kavernacle and FD signifier (black youtuber) about this whole ordeal. FD signifier said its not good to use ANY far right lingo (mostly zog and goy in the way neonazis use it) and kavernacle and badempada got onto him and now theyre saying FD supports israel when he very much doesnt? kind of heartbreaking because both FD and kavernacle have good takes.

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    A lot of us knew after the winds of change for Israel that if was going to make antisemitism worse for people who actually give a fuck and are not just running around using it as a excuse for genoicde.

    I do Palestine stuff on Tumblr. It probably doesn’t do anything but idk its some of the few things I can do. And I have to constantly watch and delete casual antisemitism.

    The amount of times I’ve had to explain that Israel doesn’t control US politics like people think they do is mind numbing. And I think the Dems are some of the people pushing that rhetorical. Surprise surprise I know