Is this anti-semitism?

that was my fault for sending that to mordy without contextualizing the fact he posts all sorts of confused shit on his twitter with varying degrees of sincerity, though he could probably do with avoiding antisemitic tropes when clowning russell brand fans

"joekz"

Tough for a bro

Most confusing anti-semitism ever: http://gawker.com/crappy-bigot-beat-up-hebrew-speaking-men-for-speaking-1453315223

A Wisconsin man who thought he was committing a run-of-the-mill hate crime against two Spanish-speaking men was probably red in the face from shame after learning that his victims were actually speaking Hebrew.

According to the official criminal complaint, Dylan Grall of Janesville was strolling around early Sunday morning when he encountered two men, aged 22 and 23, speaking a foreign language he believed to be Spanish.

The 23-year-old then swore at the men and "demanded they speak English," leading to a confrontation "where the victims were both struck in the face."

One of the victims reportedly fell to the ground while the other had his eye "nearly swollen shut."

Grall, who was charged with battery and two counts of Hate Crime, denied hitting the men, but acknowledged telling them to stop speaking Spanish and start speaking English.

An eyewitness later confirmed the attack to police and said the men were speaking Hebrew.

was probably red in the face from shame after learning that his victims were actually speaking Hebrew.

was he tho

yeah, he was a real redskin afterwards.

(xp) Yeah surely beating up some Jews would top beating up some Spaniards to this dude?

certainly i wouldnt be assuming much about him in terms of where he draws his own personal shame boundaries, yeah

Ha gawker's all like beating up on hispanics is cool but lol at this guy getting racism wrong

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2013/10/30/livingsocial-apologizes-for-adding-dreidels-to-greed-room-at-party/

I have to believe that it was an accident where the dreidels were part of the games in the room but still, wow

Is the person on the US side of this 1949 Soviet propaganda poster supposed to be Jewish?

http://i.imgur.com/ersffTt.jpg

idk, it's a weird image -- what's wrapped around his face?

he has a tootache, too much Coca Cola

i'd have to know what it says but my initial visual impression is that he's not supposed to be jewish

thats international jewry for sure

top hat in 1949 is clearly indebted to early 20th century left antisemitic iconography, jowly financier with aquiline nose and sallow yet swarthy complexion compared to the ruddy slav

also bling derived from extraction of surplus value from immiserated proletariat

http://ruthlessculture.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/nazi_cartoon_jew_der_sturmer_antisemitism_juutalaisvainot-bloodlibel_wandering_jew_propaganda_2.jpg

The main caption is "Same Day, Different Weather" and the message of the poster is that the US economy's in the shit while the Soviets are flourishing - nothing about Jews, I think. The paper the US guy is holding says something like "Soldier plans." Just seemed to be a weird portrayal of an American and I don't understand the details - the hat, glasses, scarf, rings, fangs(?), darkish skin. I guess only the nose and maybe the hat said Jew to me.

i'm not familiar w/ the jew wearing a top hat stereotype

Jeiwsh banker - stems from the Rothschilds

if those are supposed to be fangs then blood libel / exsanginuation of volkisch lifeblood etc, glasses connote physical weakness compared to welding (?) glasses

ussr in 1948 is only covertly antisemitic so it's a supporting element of the attack on capitalism, anthropomorphized 'international finance' is always slyly antisemitic

no wait they are just supposed to be sunglasses uhm still

sometimes a set of sunglasses is just etc etc

i'm pretty sure 'jews = money' predates the rothschild banking empire

i'm not familiar w/ the jew wearing a top hat stereotype

― Mordy , Monday, November 25, 2013 9:10 PM (2 hours ago)

The hats worn by religious Jewish men have changed over time & the top hat has definitely been associated with Jews in the past, though this could be more through the idea of Jews being seen to be very keen on hats in general at times when the most common hats happened to be top hats.

But even today (like, actually today, when I'm trying to research this), people often make the mistake of calling those wide-brimmed Orthodox hats top hats. It seems plausible that in the crude visual language of cold war propaganda the top hat could symbolise the Jew, though it seems equally plausible that the image just represents a melange of signifiers of the mean-spirited capitalist, with any Jewish elements included only because they are there in the larger stereotype. The scarf is the biggest mystery to me, but maybe it's just chilly in the West.

are you a russian major?

top hats just shorthand for power elements such as 'international finance' back in the day, when a lot of people wore hats and top hats looked different to the shorter, wider brimmed hats hasidic jews tend to wear

http://nordoniahillsbranch.akronlibrary.org/files/2013/01/monopolyman.jpg

are you a russian major?

Nah, just putting together a thing about cold war propaganda, including this poster and others. It is a curious image.

Some leads on the top hat in Judaism:

The custom of wearing a top hat, or tzylinder in the Yiddish language, originated in 19th century England, replacing the wig and tricorn hat. The custom became widespread in Europe until The Holocaust.

Prominent Jews dressed in top hats attend the dedication of the synagogue in Rastenburg, East Prussia.

As hat styles changed, the synagogal top hat was seen less and less, and in England was maintained only by the honorary officers and, in some places, the shammas. But on great occasions like Kol Nidrei night and Yom Kippur there were still some congregants who, even in recent decades, wore top hats.

The Great Synagogue, Raymond Apple, p.144: Some critics dismiss the top hats as 'goyish' (gentile) and assimilatory, even though supposedly Jewish styles like the streimel and kapote are also imitations and survivals of the usages of the non-Jewish gentry in the Eastern Europe of a past age.

Front page of http://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The_GGS_Journal_Elul_5772.pdf

Not connecting these to the Soviet poster necessarily, but it's interesting.

Had no idea the ethnic politics of hats were so complicated.

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/154767/why-netanyahu-gave-pope-francis-his-fathers-history-of-the-spanish-inquisition

In other words, Ben Zion Netanyahu’s argument shifted the root blame for the Inquisition from religion to ingrained racial animus–from the spiritual to the secular. If one was going to give the pope a book about the Inquisition, then, this would be the one. Moreover, not only does the book’s revisionist reckoning partially absolve Christianity for Spanish persecution of the Jews, it offers a contemporary message of pressing relevance. At a time when Christian anti-Semitism has receded–evidenced not least by the friendly relations between the Vatican and the state of Israel–secular and racial forms of anti-Semitism have been on the rise, particularly in Europe, where a nearly a quarter of Jews say they are afraid to publicly identify as Jewish. The anti-Semitism diagnosed by Ben Zion Netanyahu is alive and well.

The elder Netanyahu’s account of the Inquisition then, whatever its merits as a reconstruction of the past, serves as a powerful warning about the dangers lurking in the present–one that his son doubtless intended to convey.

god, what a dick

his boycott is the least offensive part of the interview. also a stupid tactic, voice your dissent where it most needs to be heard.

he looks like Richard Gere

FB: Yes, the brainwashing works!

What's Blumenthal's Goliath book like?

From The Jewish Daily Foward: Lest anyone miss the point, many of his chapters have titles like “The Concentration Camp,” “The Night of Broken Glass,” “This Belongs to the White Man” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/16/roger-waters-antisemitism-unhelpful

roger-waters-antisemitism-unhelpful

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/157379/american-studies-association-members-defend-israel-boycott-by-citing-anti-semitic-911-truther

That's interesting, but what implication is it really trying to create, that the entire ASA is actually anti-semitic?

or bds proponents within org

lol Roger Waters has really saddled himself atop the Do What You Gotta Do To Get Press horse eh

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Nicolas Anelka could face a Football Association charge for his controversial goal celebration during Saturday's 3-3 draw with West Ham.

Anelka confirmed to Downing that he did perform a quenelle, described by some as a "reverse Nazi salute", after his 40th-minute strike at Upton Park but as far as the West Brom hierarchy are concerned, it was done as a tribute to the French comedian Dieudonné, a friend of Anelka.

"This gesture was just a special dedication to my comedian friend Dieudonné," Anelka tweeted in both French and English on his official account.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/from-dieudonn-to-nicolas-anelka-hands-signal-new-french-race-row-9028420.html

Seems complicated. I doubt most neo-nazis have the dexterity for it.

It's like the nazi salute version of patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time.