Welcome to AltMedia House.
I founded this community to assist in the democratization of media by promoting voices that are suppressed in mainstream media publications, especially pro-Palestinian voices.
This community is 'AltMedia' in the Mearsheimer and Walt sense. Not the Richard Spencer sense.
This community likes John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Alison Weir, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Ilan Pape, Norm Finkelstein, Grant Smith, Chris Hedges, Robert Scheer, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, Alastair Crooke, Chas Freeman, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Aaron Mate, Phil Giraldi, Matt Hoh, Karen Kwiatkowski, Kevork Almassian, Chief Dennis Fritz, Craig Murray, Scott Horton, Andrew Napolitano, Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer, Asa Winstanley, Daniel Davis, Nima Alkhorshid, Pascal Lottaz, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Saagar Enjeti, Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, George Galloway, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, John Kiriakou, and everyone proximal to this group.
News outlets we like: the Cradle, Grayzone, MondoWeiss, Antiwar.com, Mintpress, Jacobin, Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, Information Liberation, israelpalestinenews.org, Electronic Intifada, Drop Site News, Responsible Statecraft, Sonar21, Scheerpost, Breaking Points, Consortium News, 972 Magazine, CounterPunch, The Intercept, The Nation, Haaretz and others like them.
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I have never seen antisemitic sentiment this high in my life, and it is almost completely due to the defense of genocide and from bullshit stunts like this group has pulled. Groups like Stop Antisemitism Now are literally hurting jewish people.
They don't care. Conflating being Jewish as being a Zionist is the entire point of what they are doing. They don't give a fuck if this hurts Jewish people because the only thing they care about is creating a pure white Israel.
In fact, they want to increase antisemitism around the world. The state of Israel faces demographic challenges, namely that the Arab population has historically had a higher fertility rate, so it has been relying on immigration to ensure that the Jewish population growth rate outpaces the Arab one. If Jewish people feel unsafe enough in the countries where they live, more of them may be driven to make aliyah.
(Also, there's been an uptick in emigration from the state of Israel since the Oct. 7th attack, which AFAICT has not been significant in sheer numbers, but a worrying trend for the leaders. Antisemitism around the world makes leaving less attractive.)
Never been antisemitic in my life, not even a drop. Now when I hear the word "Jew" I feel negative about it, "Israel" even more so.
I think it is really important to try and not conflate being Jewish with being pro-Israel.
Personally I am not willing to condem everyone of Jewish faith due to Israels actions.
The problem is, even when you try to separate the two, there is still some initial connection there.
If I meet a Jewish person I've never met before, I'm not going to just immediately assume they are a horrible fascist who supports killing children. However, one of the first questions that will enter my head is: "Is this person pro-Israel?" and unfortunately, I can't just assume the answer is no. It's also a question I need an answer to before I'm comfortable interacting with said person.
It's a similar feeling to meeting someone from Russia, or hell, meeting someone from the US. The first, immediate, question I need the answer to is "Does the person I'm talking to support the absolutely unforgivable shit their country is doing?" because if the answer is yes, I don't want to interact with that person a second more than I have to. The only difference with Jewish people is that they don't have to be from Israel for that question to come up.
It's only fair to extend that suspicion to meeting Christians as well, the vast majority of Zionists are Christian.
I think I'm more suspicious of Christians than Jews on that front (among many many others)
I know... Like an entire generation mobilized to stop what Germany was doing to the Jews, and try and bring them some kind of justice.
Then they thank the world by spying on their allies, extorting them into authoritarian regimes using their state funded child sex ring. Then they go on to commit genocide, and act like anyone who opposes it is an antisemite.
No, people just generally don't support genocide and whole sale slaughter of civilians.
Don't think of it as "jews show their thanks like this" that's an easy path to accidentally fostering bigotry. Of course a nation founded by victims of genocide and members of the affected group around the world whose group has been victim to many genocides in their millennium + of diaspora are going to spy on everyone. Especially considering that the USA and USSR both took nazi talent in after the war, and that nobody cared enough to fight when it was just Jews' word against Germany's.
This is yet another settler colonialist nation committing genocide after decades of dehumanization of their victims. Israel associates itself with the international Jewish community and their tragic history in the same way the United States does with the concept of democracy and freedom or the USSR did with the international proletariat. Every non-Israeli Jew and a good chunk of the Israeli ones could hate Israel with the passion many of my Jewish friends do. They could hate it enough to blot out Israel as well as Haman on Purim. And even then Israel would claim to stand for them and speak for them and that criticism of Israel is antisemitism.
We must maintain our opposition to genocide and our opposition to bigotry based on racial or ethnic lines. We must force the citizens of Israel and its supporters to see the humanity of the starving Palestinians, just as we forced the people of Germany and the world to see the humanity of the Jewish people, and just as we should have done in America any time in the past 300 or so years with our indigenous peoples.
All they're achieving with this is that from now on, whenever I see someone accused of anti-Semitism, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, something that used to make me distrust that person, but no longer does.
This is a tad reductive. Like someone else said, the goal is fear and intimidation. They are hoping that the harassment she receives affects her kids and forces here to leave the public eye and subsequently silence another voice of opposition.
That's not true and you know it. They're achieving exactly what they set out to achieve: violence and hate against this woman and her family to bully her, and others, into shuttering support for Palestine.
The anti-cancel culture brigade really likes cancel culture, if it targets their enemies...
They invented it, back then we called it the Red Scare
You could say that. Maybe their biggest problem with it was that it got stolen from them.
These Israeli terrorists are true scum, that country and its government are such a shit stain on this world. My heart goes out to Ms Rachel, and to all the Palestinian babies murdered every day by these monsters.
The people who think Mrs Rachel is antisemitic are demons. They just lost all credibility.
Not demons, but close. Cultists.
They're not demons, they're people. Terrible people but still human beings. Dehumanization is a tool of the assholes.
Okay, call me an asshole then. Those people are inhuman, souless ghouls who dont deserve a day of comfort in their miserable excuse for a life.
I agree with you, Sgt_choke_n_stroke
I'm alleging that Stop Antisemitism Now is staffed by people who will defend raping people with dogs.
Children in Gaza are semites. The genocidal maniacs destroying their country and killing their families are antisemitic.
Helping kids? Believe it or not, that's Hamas.
It sucks to be lied about & slandered, but at this point it really is a badge of honor to have genocide supporters calling you out because you don't support murdering the kids that they traumatized. I know the threats & damage are real though. All the pro-genociders are doing though is exposing themselves for how dishonest they really are. Them calling Ms. Rachel a antisemite will only wake a bunch more people up to their lies & propaganda. The ones that believe it are blinded by their own bigotry.
It does more than that. It tarnishes the believability of all accusations of antisemitism, even those made by reasonable people about actual antisemitism.
It also proactively fuels antisemitism by conflating Israel with Jews more broadly. Because of rhetoric like this, some subset of people who are outraged at Israel l's actions will now direct that outrage at Jews more broadly.
Moreover, Palestinians have semitic DNA.
Zionists are the strongest antisemitic force since Hitler
Why doesn't she sue them for libel and/or slander? Make them prove she has said or done anti-semetic things?
Because calling someone Anti-Semetic is like calling someone an asshole. It's fully an opinion and there's no way to prove it one way or another.
And even if you could, she bares the cost of fighting the case. EVEN if she prevails, 10 more assholes will show up and call her anti-semetic.
The problem is social media has given assholes tremendous power.
This is an organization with published statements and claims though. Not some random jackanape on Twitter. And anti-semetism has hate crime legislation detailing it and legal precedents. Calling someone an asshole is subjective but anti-semetism has actual objective definitions.
Have you seen how they care about the safety of Palestinian children, and how they rationalize killing children as protecting Israel from terrorism?
Their actions provide all of the answers you need to understand their intent.
They are terrorist. They hide behind a word and are robbing it of all meaning other than hate. Israels hate not anyone else's. They are Nazi Germany in the nineteen thirties and forties. They are inflicting their final solution on the Palestinians. The people who they robbed of their land. They had to wait until all the concentration camp victims from world war two were dead to do it. Because those Jewish folk would be kicking their asses.
Israel is a terrorist state and it will eventually destroy them. They have trash like Hillary Clinton telling lies for them. The piece of shit who ran for president and lost to trump because no one could tell them apart. Personally I think trump is lot more feminine than her. They have Jewish born Americans like Bernie Sanders condemning them. They are lost people and unfortunately genuine, good and decent Jewish folk elsewhere folk suffer because of these hateful fakers.
I was with you till you started mixing in the gender presentation of Trump and Hillary.
Same.