Is this anti-semitism?

I always get a little thrown when I see ads for 88 Rising, which is an Asian-owned music company.

Eights are very good luck in ESEA cultures.

There's a lot going on with this van from Christchurch. I used to see it around sometimes, I vaguely recognised some of the messages such as the 88 but at the time had no idea about the 14 or the black sun logo. I believe the word beneficial also has some meaning but I can't remember right now.

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The racist POS behind this was jailed for a few months for sharing videos of the mosque shootings.

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Wtf

We also know Henry Ford was an anti-semite, but this has some details about the extent of it that I didn't know: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/henry-fords-empire-of-lies

Ohio Senate candidate Michele Reynolds used the phrase "Jew you down" in a book she wrote and said Jews have a reputation for "not wasting resources."

In a statement, her campaign said the statement came out of respect for Jews' reputation for "solid money principles." pic.twitter.com/SL4tGjv8Bb

— Jake Zuckerman (@jake_zuckerman) October 20, 2022

The gentiles are trying to sell us Hanukkah gnomes now, so I decided to look into the history of gnomes to see if it's antisemitic....and OF COURSE it is, so here's a thread about why you should not buy these for your Jewish friends: 1/? pic.twitter.com/qQDfezmHrJ

— Sim Kern (@sim_kern) December 12, 2022

bleah

I understand the exploration of their origins - it makes a lot of sense - but I'm not going to stop enjoying David the Gnome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdZQub7QVE

In fact, looking at the credits for the first time in a while, it was two Jewish brothers who brought this show to America!

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

I still think about not being prepared to see the hannukah version of elf on a shelf in a display at Target and giggling

mensch on a bench!!

Chicago police are urging Jewish and other religious communities to be extra vigilant this weekend when a neo-Nazi group has declared a “day of hate.”

“At this time, there is no actionable intelligence,” the department said in a statement. “We continue to actively monitor the situation.”

Last month, a small anti-Semitic group based in eastern Iowa designated Feb. 25 as a “day of hate,” and other white supremacist and hate groups have since said they plan to participate, according to David Goldenberg, the Midwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.

“Our network of analysts at ADL centered around extremism are carefully monitoring online platforms, chat rooms and a whole bunch of other things, and we’ll alert appropriate authorities if we see anything that we think needs to be elevated,” Goldenberg said.

Chicago police said in a statement that it is “in contact with members, leaders and organizations within the Jewish community and all faith-based communities in Chicago, and will continue working closely with them to strengthen communication and safety.”

Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), whose ward covers a large portion of the city’s Jewish community on the North Side, said the police “will be paying special attention to all synagogues and Jewish institutions.”

“Families across our community should feel reassured that they are protected from those that wish us harm,” she said in a statement to the Sun-Times.

this just happened at the high school I graduated from 30 years ago ('just'...apparently he's been doing this for a few years? and he did finally get put on leave this week):

https://jweekly.com/2023/02/21/east-bay-high-school-teacher-called-out-for-antisemitic-lessons/

yeesh

kind of mind boggling that this went on for a few years and other teachers just 'found out' about it. it's not that big of a school (or wasn't when I went there). guy seems to have some other extracurricular weirdness (in essence, seems to be into the hotep stuff). district should be ashamed of themselves.

it's crazy this teacher got away with teaching that antisemitic Nazi garbage for so long without anyone calling him out.

sounds like people tried to take steps for months, without success. the ADL got involved, had meetings canceled on them. and the teacher is still teaching.

teacher got put on leave today, there was another story in the chronicle.

my main takeaway is: good on the kids at the school this year for really bringing this to light and rejecting it.

Insane how long the school admin was asking themselves the question posed in the thread title

My wife had a a high school English teacher in Northern Virginia that would tell her, with some polite concern, that she was going to hell for being Jewish.

One of my Jewish high school friends moved to Dallas for her senior year of high school, where none of her new classmates had ever met a Jewish person before, but used certain phrases she found very antisemitic all the damn time.

I had pennies thrown at me in high school in the late 80s (not really Jewish but it's a long story).

That’s awful, but I get it: the arch-rival school to mine was in a WASPy town where real estate was traditionally covenanted to forbid Black or Jewish buyers moving there. My town was the Jewish suburb, and ice hockey games with the WASPy school inevitably featured some arsehole chucking bagels on the ice. After any kind of game with that school, their fans would drop $10 bills, beating up the kids who picked up the money (and saying disgusting antisemitic things).

Texas, according to the friend who left for Dallas, was even worse.

(Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam) Parker replied: "The fact that I walked in and said 'Hey, I'm going to have to Jew it down' is not an ethnic slur. This has nothing to do—I'm not referring to the Jewish community. I used that term as an adjective, as a descriptive word of bargaining them down…That is not an ethnic slur."

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&mibextid=1YhcI9R&v=500510682289332

Silly Parker, you have to say "It's not an ethnic slur" THREE times to make it not an ethnic slur

Why is it so hard for people to say "Whoa, shit, I've been saying that all my life and I never really thought about it"?

A phrase I've never heard anyone utter in my life but then it seems to be an "American thing"?

it's not particularly common in the US either, as far as I know, can't think of ever hearing it either

You're lucky. Heard it all the time in high school (US).

Ugh.

I've had it said to me directly by someone who knew that my father is Jewish.

The above friend who moved to Dallas for her senior year did have to call out new classmates who used that phrase.

I would say (US, Jewish) I've never actually heard it used but I know it's a thing.

I think mh punched someone for saying it iirc

I would like to call time on non-jews saying I remind them of Woody Allen, as a school colleague did last weekend

Yikes

I had a “friend” here in LA say that about her experience with an appliance repair, in a group w my wife, whose dad survived the Holocaust. I think I went into one of those trances you see in movies, all the sound dropping out and a loud ringing sound in my ears.

people who have had experience with this, would you say it is straight up malicious or more semi-innocent ignorance?

I have a hard time understanding how someone could not know how using "Jew" as a verb is offensive. the Woody Allen thing, while o_O as fuck, I could see more being ignorance.

Well w that one she mildly apologized, saying something along the lines of “well you can take the girl out of the south but…”

it was crazy though because in my entire life I’d so rarely heard it.

I've never *heard* it said out loud, but seen it online a lot over the years. and one of my good friends said her mother used to say it and she'd tell her to stfu.

See also: gypped (which decades ago I did not know was an offensive term)

Yea same

Gypped is one where a lot of people who use it don't know where it comes from or why it is offensive. I find it harder to believe that the same is true with jewed but who knows.

I feel like it's only relatively recently that "gypsy" has been phased out as a commonly used term. "Jew" as a verb has never been commonly used the same way.

It’s also comparatively easy to reach adulthood in the US believing that “gypsy” is, like, a job, possibly an extinct or even fictional one, and not a derogatory term for an oppressed ethnic and cultural minority. Compared to thinking that “Jew” is not referring to and derogating actually existing people.

re: Gypsy, many Romani-Americans still identify with that word, so it's not necessarily "phased out".

Embarrassingly, I always pictured the word being spelled "jipped" and had no idea what it meant. Lesson taken and that I tell my kid is if you don't know what it means don't say it.

I think I used "welch" (as in "he totally welched on the deal") well into adulthood without knowing its source