As a metal fan, I just watched Ghost's live concert at the local movie theater. However, during the song "Mummy Dust," I noticed quite a bit of anti-Semitic imagery in the background. Has this been discussed yet? Has the band made a statement about it? Does anyone know anything??
#ghost #antisemitism #concert #skeletontour #band #neveragain #mummydust #TobiasForge
#2big2rig #Ghostbc
Campus Antisemitism Report Hid a Key Finding that Turns the Results Upside Down
by Joshua Sealy-Harrington, Associate Professor and the Chair in Palestinian Human Rights in Canada at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law
thegrindmag.ca/campus-antisemi…
#AntiSemitism #Universities #Canada
In early August, mainstream outlets repeated the findings of a flawed report describing alarming levels of antisemitism on university campuses. Two weeks later, the authors stated that 92 per cent of…Joshua Sealy-Harrington (The Grind Magazine)
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Gad, I’m in awe at our judical system and the critical thinking our judges displaysometimes…
“On Tuesday this week a momentous decision on freedom of speech and the issue of criticism of Israel was delivered by Justice Des Fagan, a senior member of the New South Wales Supreme Court. The decision is a wake-up call to politicians, universities and other institutions who have adopted the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism, pushed by the partisan antisemitism commissioner Jillian Segal.”
(source: pearlsandirritations.com/post/… )
#AntiSemitism #Zionism #Israel #Netanyahu #IHRA #JillianSegal #ZionistLobby #GazaGenocide #WestBankInvasion
A NSW Supreme Court judgment has sharply distinguished criticism of Israel from antisemitism, raising important questions about the IHRA definition and its use by governments and institutions.Pearls and Irritations
this is the guy who brags about being part of the conspiracy that assassinated Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin.
this is the guy who was found guilty of #terrorism by #Israel and served prison time for it.
this is the guy who may still be in USA’s no-entry terrorism lists.
this is the guy who was empowered by the corporatist fascists of the #DemocraticParty; who, like #JoeBiden, called themselves “christian zionists” while accusing #GenZ of #antisemitism for protesting Palestinian #genocide
The U.S. is not far behind them.
Angenommen, ich schriebe mal ein Lied
Ich nutze ganz bewusst lieber den Konjunktiv
In dessen Inhalt ich besänge, dass ich höchstpersönlich fände
Himmler sei Antisemit
Ob der Intendant des ZDF, Dr. Norbert Himmler, da wohl auch sein Veto einlegen würde?
oh boy, this sucks so much 🤮
"I joined Mastodon to calm down from the exitement & rage of other digital platforms to have friendly and open minded discussions with (preferably also slightly left) nice other people. Everybody deserves a good life."
"Exept the Jews, of course. They are the devil."
#Mastodon never solved its #AntiSemitism problem and it's getting worse and worse.
Am Rande einer Großkundgebung in London schildern britische Juden, wie der wachsende Antisemitismus sie bedroht. Die Labour-Regierung wird ausgebuht.Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski (taz.de)
Today in Labor History March 25, 1919: Cossack troops murdered 4,000 Jews in the Tetiev pogrom in Ukraine, two-thirds of the Jewish population. They tossed infants into the air and dashed their bodies on the pavement and burned the Jewish quarter to the ground. The Tetiev pogrom would become the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. During the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921, there were 1,236 violent attacks against Jews in 524 Ukrainian towns. 30,000-60,000 died in these pogroms. The Ukrainian People's Republic army, Ukrainian warlords, the Red Army and the Polish Army all participated in anti-Jewish pogroms.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #antisemitism #pogrom #massacre #genocide #ukraine #jewish #polish #communism #russia #civilwar #warcrimes #ukraine #poland #redarmy #cossack
Instance admins: Meta and Twitch have both come out with rules about antisemitism in their latest Terms of Service that are measured but address the concerns of many Jews on the platform.
If I were take those rules and provide you language based on them that would help you implement them on your own sites, would you use it?
@fragdenstaat hat dann auch mal die Akten für diesen unglaublichen Berliner Korruptionsskandal angefordert.
CDU Leute und nahe Organisationen bereichern sich an einem Topf gegen Antisemitismus.
CDU-Fraktion: Die Akten zur Berliner Fördergeldaffäre fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklus…
Berlin stellt Millionen Euro für Projekte gegen Antisemitismus bereit. Doch die Berliner CDU setzte scheinbar die Kulturverwaltung unter Druck, nach ihren parteipolitischen Wünschen zu entscheiden. Wir veröffentlichen die Akten.FragDenStaat
#Antisemitism is a #SerialKiller walking amongst us.
Support your #Jewish #Friends by destroying that age-old #BeastOfHate.
At the very, very least by not looking away.
🕎 😔
"#Hamburg’s #antisemitism commissioner Stefan Hensel, the only #Jewish official in such a role in any #German state, has announced that he will step down at the end of the year, saying a wave of hatred and a lack of political backing have made his job untenable.
His resignation, announced on October 1, comes amid a sharp rise in #antisemitic incidents across #Germany since the bloody #Hamas-led #October7, 2023, invasion of #Israel and subsequent war in #Gaza, sparking questions over how committed German authorities really are to protecting Jewish life."
timesofisrael.com/germanys-onl…
Hamburg's Stefan Hensel says that since Oct. 7 he has faced a 'massive wave of hatred' and that he feels abandoned by city officials who 'should be my allies'Joshua Schultheis (The Times of Israel)
So I've just learned the other day that curating your timeline/stream according to your personal interests and/or the topic of your account/channel is utterly racist. No matter how specialised your account/channel is.
Everyone in the Fediverse is basically required to follow a substantial amount of Black users, especially Black activists. If you're on Hubzilla or (streams), you must actually follow them, i.e. you must give them full permissions to send you anything and everything unhindered and unlimited. You must not use account/channel-wide or per-contact filters on them. Even if each one of them boosts 100 posts per day, you must not filter or disallow their boosts.
Also, if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), all of which count and list unread messages, you must not simply mark what has come in from them as read. You must read it all and be interested in it all. This includes all comments on these posts. And yes, you must re-read everything whenever it tries to catch your attention again, e.g. if someone has liked/faved or boosted/reposted/renoted/repeated it.
But even if you receive thousands of comments along with those hundreds of extra posts, you must not comment on these comments. Not unless either a comment mentions you explicitly, or you're mutually connected to whoever wrote the comment. As you wouldn't even receive that comment on Mastodon, replying to it counts as reply-guying and mansplaining on Mastodon, completely regardless of how you comment. It's highly disrespectful, and if Black people are involved, it's racist.
It doesn't matter if this has allegedly been perfectly normal, the standard and part of the culture since five and a half years before Mastodon was launched. Mastodon rules supreme over the whole Fediverse, and only Mastodon's culture has any validity anywhere in the Fediverse. Any culture that differs from Mastodon's is toxic and evil and must be abolished.
Speaking of which, let's suppose you come across one of these many threads in which Black Mastodon users talk with other Black Mastodon users and Mastodon-using allies about how the Fediverse needs to be made safer. In this case, no matter how blatantly obvious it is that all people involved in this thread have no idea of the Fediverse outside Mastodon, you are not allowed to chime in and tell them about places which are safer due to their technological design and how they work.
First of all, it'd be mansplaining and reply-guying. Second, there's a tendency for Black Mastodon users to trust the rest of the Fediverse even less than Mastodon, what with e.g. Nazi instances on Pleroma. And third, your suggestion is likely to be taken for an attempt at nudging them into moving to one specific place, essentially trying to hoard them in a ghetto and segregate them from the rest of the Fediverse. In short, there's letting them wait for the Mastodon instances they're on to improve, and there's racism.
While we're at it: Even if you're on Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams), and you hate Mastodon with a burning passion for very good reasons, you must support Black-led Mastodon instances. Otherwise you're a racist.
Lastly, while I don't have proof for it, I'm pretty sure that everything that counts as racism towards Black users may also count as
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #FediverseSafety #Mansplaining #ReplyGuy #ReplyGuys #Racist #Racism #Sexist #Sexism #Homophobic #Homophobia #Transphobic #Transphobia #Queerphobic #Queerphobia #Ableist #Ableism #Islamophobic #Islamophobia #AntiSemitic #AntiSemitism #Xenophobic #Xenophobia
Today in Labor History April 16, 1884: Anatole France was born. He was a poet and novelist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921. Many of his works satirized religious and political ideas. The son of a bookseller, France spent much of his childhood in his family’s bookstore, reading voraciously, and meeting many of the writers who frequented the store. He was active in the movement to free Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer falsely accused of espionage. And he signed Emile Zola’s letter in support of Dreyfus, “J’accuse.” France wrote about wrote about the affair in his 1901 novel “Monsieur Bergeret.” France's novel, “Penguin Island depicts penguins transformed into humans after the birds have been mistakenly baptized by the almost-blind Abbot Mael. “The Gods Are Athirst” (1912), about a true-believing follower of Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror of 1793–94, is a wake-up call against political and ideological fanaticism. “The Revolt of the Angels” (1914) it tells the story of Arcade, a bored guardian angel who starts reading his mentee’s books on theology and becomes an atheist, moves to Paris, falls in love, and loses his virginity causing his wings to fall off. He then joins the revolutionary movement of fallen angels.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dreyfus #antisemitism #anatolefrance #french #nobelprize #literature #fiction #books #writer #author @bookstadon
