I wonder if Russians in the UK are routinely called ‘baby killer’ too.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

The way so many of you blame Jews for everything wrong in the world makes you no different than Nazis or the Czar's secret police. Pathetic.

Feminism has always sought to balance utopianism with the heavy lifting of the everyday, real-world indignities and injustices that curtail and mar women's lives; alongside victories, it has often produced more disagreement than consensus. But this time it feels different. The rifts are wider, deeper, more structurally incompatible with the movement's stated aims, thanks in part to the "shift to identity-based feminism," as Kara Jesella, a U.S.-based researcher on antisemitism in feminism, suggests. This change, she says, "has enabled the antisemitism and anti-Zionism that were latent at the advent of the movement to become a primary feature." Who doesn't want "human rights" robustly defended? Yet this virtuous-sounding phrase has come to be tightly defined by its work in delegitimizing the Jewish state. According to Samuel Moyn, the Yale historian of human rights, the modern usage developed and spread not with the formation of the United Nations in 1948 but in the 1970s, the decade in which the world saw the emergence of behemoth NGOs. Their godfather was Jimmy Carter, who in this decade incorporated "human rights" into foreign policy for the first time. Meanwhile, the 1975 Helsinki Accords, intended to foster good relations between the Cold War-era East and West, further entrenched the "humanitarian" worldview.

Humanitarianism became a new way of fighting each other. While the accords meant Jewish groups in the West could push for the rights of the refuseniks, the Soviet Union turned it on its head. Once it became clear that the term could signal moral authority while obscuring violence, it was swept into armed anti-colonial activism. By the mid-197os, Israel had become the eye of the storm, marking the beginning of verbal, psychological, and at times physical violence against Jewish and Israeli women. The storm only built in intensity as the Soviet policy of "Zionology" co-opted lefties the world over. Soviet Zionology fused Nazi-like ideas of Jews with the language of anti-colonialism ("Zionism is colonialism" and "Zionism is apartheid") and gained a foothold in international leftist and "revolutionary" circles, as well as in the third and Arab worlds. Attacking Israel was an easy way to target the United States in this Cold War propaganda battle. Within the feminist movement, this meant attacking Jewish and Israeli women, which got its start half a century earlier amid the conference centers, seminar rooms, and resolutions of globalist humanitarianism and "Third Worldism." Then, as now, the focus on human rights not only excluded Jews and Israelis but also weaponized the whole post-colonial, third-worldist intellectual framework against them.

Feminism’s Jewish problem: Older feminists know only too well that no subject has fractured the feminist movement more—not trans, not surrogacy, not prostitution, not porn—than that small democracy in the Middle East. www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... By @nicolelampert.bsky.social &
Zoe Strimpel

ok but what are you meant to do? Walk around being a bit sad? Go shout pointlessly at an embassy? Post downers?

I see some people have decided to attack Jews, is that what we should do?

Because I ain’t doing any of that, thanks.

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Do you really think smashing the windows of establishments, just because they have even the most tenuous association with Jews, can be categorised as “petty symbolism”? What an abominable piece of writing.

The fact that this antisemitic special rapporteur recently had her contract renewed should tell you everything you need to know about the UN.

I'm tired of people lying about a Genocide that didn't happen in Gaza.

I'm tired of people ignoring other Genocides that ACTUALLY HAPPENED in other parts of the world. (Artsakh anyone??)

I'm tired of posters, particularly on this website, attacking Jews just because they're Jews.

Izabella Tabarovsky had her "lightbulb moment" about contemporary antisemitism when she had been living in the US for 28 years but was suddenly plunged back to her tough upbringing in the Soviet Union. It was 2018, and she saw an anti-Israel campus protest on television. "The students were holding placards saying "Zionism is racism', 'Apartheid state', and all the other slogans to which we have become so accustomed. "I had been writing about the Holocaust in the USSR and had become used to thinking about antisemitism only in those terms. But something about the placards disturbed me - they had echoes that I couldn't quite place. I called my father and asked for his thoughts. "He just burst out laughing and that's when I realised that I had seen all this before when I was growing up in the USSR. Two immediate questions formed in my mind. The USSR had collapsed long ago so why was this happening now? And how had it got here, this language from my old world? 'The language hadn't been reinvented. It had come straight from my old world." She came to London to conduct research into the left-wing press of yesteryear. Before long, it became obvious that the anti-Zionist ideas she had seen on the campus protest in America had been been sown in newspapers and periodicals decades before.

‘I understand antisemitism because I was born in Russia’:
@nicolelampert.bsky.social talks to Izabella Tabarovsky author of “Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide” a new guide for students on how to fight Jew-hatred on campus www.thejc.com/life/i-under... #antizionism

Schools, struggling with parent and maybe even teacher groups who claim the Holocaust isn't real or "propaganda" or insist that any mention of genocide has to also mention Gaza, have chosen to go for the easy route and opt out altogether. It used to be said that people only love dead Jews - novelist Dara Horn has written a brilliant book on the subject - but now even the Holocaust victims are not immune from the modern incarnation of anti-Semitism. In truth, the Holocaust has become increasingly politicised for many years. HMD became watered down. First - and probably rightly - it included all the victims of the Nazis, including gay men, the Roma and Sinti gypsy groups, people with disabilities, and political enemies.

British schools have failed to properly teach children about the dangers of #antisemitism: It is sadly no surprise that Holocaust Memorial Day has been neutered and watered down www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/80a1ee7... By @nicolelampert.bsky.social #HistoricalPoliticalMemory

Tears and defiance at the London march against the Islamic Republic by Iranians and their Jewish allies.
Photos by Elliott Franks

When Bristol MP, Damien Egan, who is Jewish, was prevented from visiting a local school after his appearance was cancelled due to "security reasons" , the local teaching union celebrated this as a great victory, calling it "a win for safeguarding, solidarity and the power of the NEU trade union staff group". While many unions are obsessed with the issue of Palestine, the National Education Union (NEU), Britain's biggest teaching union, takes things to a whole different level from the top down.

‘As a Jew, I was told Israel didn’t exist’: Life inside Britain’s biggest teaching union.
Two Jewish teachers expose the rampant #antisemitism – and ‘pro-Palestine’ indoctrination – within the NEU www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5b45db1... By @nicolelampert.bsky.social #autjoritarianLeft #syndicalism

An anatomy of a scandal.

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The persistent drumbeat of "anti-Zionism" turns quickly into overt bullying Jew hate on the campus, say some students. "In this hostile climate, many Jewish people only go on to university campus for their lectures," reveals Dov Forman, a third-year student who is also an activist against anti-Semitism. "I have Jewish friends who, even in this term, have left their student accommodation and gone back to live at home if they're from London, because of how kind of scared they feel. There's an Islamist and hard-left student bloc who are trying to terrorise Jewish students every single day." Forman continues: "Because Zionists are seen as inherently evil, Jews are too. Any Jewish student is fair game for these people. And if someone screams 'baby killer' at you, or 'From the river to the sea', the other students will stay silent. And I don't know if that is because they are scared or because they think it's fair game." The atmosphere of hostility permeates among some academics too. Jews are on the front line of a fight against Western values, says Joseph Mintz, a professor of inclusive education at UCL. There is this strain of progressive thinking which aligns with Islamism in its anti-Western positioning, and that sets a scene which makes anti-Semitism acceptable," he says. "In a way, universities are traducing the societies within which they're positioned. Anti-Semitism is one significant expression of that. We see this in UCL, but we see it across academia as a whole."| • A second Jewish professor, who asks not to be named, says: "I know that a lot of my colleagues don't agree with these extremist positions, but it's something they will only tell you in secret. There is literally no one who will come out publicly and say this is wrong."

Britain’s ‘godless’ university has become dogged by antisemitism:
Hostility at University College London shows no sign of abating, and extremist rhetoric is now rife in one of our elite institutions.
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Primal Scream slammed for showing 'antisemitic' images at London gig The rock band, whose frontman Bobby Gillespie has long been an outspoken critic of Israel , showed images of a Jewish Star of David merged with a Swastika.

Antisemitism is cool again.

Primal Scream slammed for showing 'antisemitic' images at London gig www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Some media have been allowed in, I think they should allow more, but clearly it’s still a dangerous place.

Trump Admin Sending Taliban $45M Sparks Republican Backlash

The funding was reportedly sent in cash on Monday, despite ongoing concerns about the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The non-Jewish Israel supporters who have lost friends over Gaza - The Jewish Chronicle Ever wondered who would be today’s Righteous Among Nations? We talk to the steadfast allies who have fallen out with their nearest and dearest over the Jewish state’s war on Hamas

“He shows me a long message from one former friend who said: “Denying Gaza’s starvation is no less vile than denying the Holocaust.” Another wrote to tell him, “Your eyes are blind and your soul is blackened.”

Both brilliant & devastating, @nicolelampert.bsky.social

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I’d love to see it, I’m writing a new piece…

Antisemitism Sends People Mad And how I saw this all play out at a conference for feminists

Illuminating article by the tireless @nicolelampert.bsky.social. Brings to mind my interview with Letty Cottin Pogrebin: the ugly hostility she & other Jewish feminists faced at the Year of the Woman UN conference when they passed the resolution that Zionism = racism.

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He’s not naive. He’s stupid.

This is transparently false: It never takes the worst people on the internet 24 hours to blame a horrific tragedy on a Jewish culprit. More like 24 minutes.

Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report

Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually

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Thugs cut down memorial tree for French Jew who was tortured to death in hate attack - The Jewish Chronicle The olive tree in a Paris suburb was planted for Ilan Halimi, who was killed aged 23 in 2006

Thugs cut down memorial tree for French Jew who was tortured to death in hate attack

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A photo of a wooden keepsake box which shows the Swastika head key

A photograph of a painted inlay in the lid of a keepsake box depicting a nazi soldier carrying a swastika flag

🗝 Josef Kaltenhauser Sr’s handmade keepsake box, c.1930s. Mayrhofer family collection.

This seemingly inconspicuous box was found in the estate of Josef Kaltenhauser Jr, and was made by his father. It turned out to be a time capsule, with the Nazi past of the Kaltenhauser family preserved within...

The far right racist Homeland Party keen to own the small protest in Nuneaton today.

Oh shame