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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter dozens of Jewish girls get lost in NY creek tunnel, antisemitic comments follow online
When dozens of Jewish girls emerged from a storm drain in Nyack, New York, Wednesday after becoming lost on a school trip, local officials described the episode as a fortunate ending to a potentially dangerous situation.
On social media, however, the incident quickly drew a slew of antisemitic comments.
They cant help it. Roaches and rats love the sewers, wrote one Facebook user on a post by the Rockland Daily.
Those tunnels were promised to them 3,000 years ago, another user wrote, referencing the common online antisemitic phrase ridiculing the Jewish connection to Israel.
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Cha
(321,349 posts)Assholes are Projecting.
☮️💙 Jewish girls found in New York
🌈🌊🍀🕊️Mahalo, BtA~
sheshe2
(98,886 posts)I have lost hope for this...OUR country.
What happened to:
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
-The Youngbloods
Journeyman
(15,501 posts)If being an unfeeling ass is part of the criteria, I'd make a terrible bigot.
gulliver
(14,144 posts)Israel is the most liberal, most progressive country in the ME, so there's really no excuse for the left to be Jewphobic. It shows immaturity and pseudo-intellectual posing for the most part. I think they'll grow out of it.
The far right, including Christian and Islamic nationalist cretins are just infected with Jewphobia as a kind of mental rabies. They may grow out of it too, but it's basically waiting for inoculation of sanity into their system. Could be a long wait.
Shipwack
(3,126 posts)
Jewphobic. Of course, many of us do despise the ruling factions of the current Israeli administration.
Not liking Netanyahu et al no more makes one Jewphobic as not liking Trump make one anti-American.
My apologies if this was sarcasm that went over my head.
sarisataka
(22,967 posts)who are "Jewphobic". Often they use Israel/Zionism as a justification, but excuses do not hide the antisemitism that is endemic.
(No, criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic. Using antisemitic tropes to criticize Israel is antisemitic)
Shipwack
(3,126 posts)Which people on the left are using what racist tropes?
sarisataka
(22,967 posts)was the DSA's celebration of Hamas "great victory". That Hamas taught "those people" a lesson.
A pre-October 7 analysis-
Far-Left Antisemitism
On DU we have seen:
Posts saying Jews need to "get over" the Holocaust
Claims all Israeli Jews are "white European colonizers"
American Jews are not using their influence to reign in Israel (as justification for harassment of Jews and vandalism of Jewish owned businesses)
Congress is "in the pocket" of Jewish interests
The Jewish/Zionist lobby dictates US policy
Blood Libel
Denial of antisemitism and that if there is antisemitism Jews have brought it on themselves (this was one of the very first responses to the initial report of the October 7 attack)
I could go on...
Shipwack
(3,126 posts)But a few anti semitic posts on here out of hundreds of thousands (not that ANY amount is ok) is not grounds for saying the Democratic Party is due for a reckoning.
Antisemitism is not a mainstream thing in the left.
Shipwack
(3,126 posts)I havent heard about the DSA celebrating the October attacks, but the DSA is not the Democratic Party, nor are they the face of the left in the US.
sarisataka
(22,967 posts)and debated here at length. Perhaps you were elsewhere.
IS DSA not a part of the left?
Who is the "face of the left"?
mopinko
(74,162 posts)plenty of it is just cloaked in honest criticism but trotting out ancient libels dressed in modern clothes.
at the very least, there is quite the double standard.
its a srs problem, and its gonna bite the party in the ass.
Shipwack
(3,126 posts)What tropes are being used?
mopinko
(74,162 posts)but jooos own america is 1.
mopinko
(74,162 posts)billionaires do everything this small potatoes group is accused of.
ColoringFool
(1,341 posts)country, where Trump has tried to ban foreign Muslims!
Easterncedar
(6,630 posts)Glad the girls are ok.
littlemissmartypants
(35,236 posts)Don't we do a disservice to humanity when we elevate it to this level of attention?
Especially when it's a documented fact that more than 50% of what's seen there is either dis- or misinformation?
Is propagating such information that is heavily weighted to be propaganda really helpful in deliberative and socially responsible discourse?
I'm thankful that the children were found. I can only imagine the relief their families are feeling as a result. ❤️
mopinko
(74,162 posts)no, its not the time to whistle past the graveyard.
Torchlight
(7,158 posts)regardless of what puppets and bots are instructing.
littlemissmartypants
(35,236 posts)Garbage in, Garbage out... as the saying goes.
Attention is our most vital tool.
Whatever we focus our attention on, we strengthen.
Some people enjoy porn and UFC fights. Just because they do doesn't mean that I have to.
Not everything passes muster. And every single thing shouldn't. I call it discretion. Some people refer to such as preserving the peace.
We all have our limits.
Torchlight
(7,158 posts)Bettie
(19,968 posts)but where were the chaperones/school staff who should have been keeping an eye on the kids.
If my kids got lost on a field trip, I'd ask those questions.
Good that they found their way out, unfortunate (and unaccepable) that they got in that situation.
Oneironaut
(6,360 posts)The destruction it has caused to society is immeasurable.
GenThePerservering
(3,965 posts)basically bots run the right-wing ecosystem.
Torchlight
(7,158 posts)We (humans) have a thin veneer of civility. Provide us a level practical anonymity, and only then will we show the content of our character, debased and shameful as it often may be. To acknowledge and realize and examine this ugly aspect of our nature is not to condone nor tolerate it, but rather ensure it receives the attention and the full consequence it has earned.
Otherwise, we become Barbie Bush telling everyone, "Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
sarisataka
(22,967 posts)it's just bots and we should ignore it
Behind the Aegis
(56,288 posts)I hope people remember to lift with their knees when moving their goalposts.
MustLoveBeagles
(18,073 posts)NONE!!