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A New Jersey woman found her tires slashed and an antisemitic note on her car windshield while visiting family in Manhattan last week, according to police and family members.

“Zionist rats aren’t welcome anywhere but Antarctica or hell,” the hateful note said.

The vile note was found on a silver Kia parked on 124th Street in Harlem on Thursday, June 25, 2026, police said.

The 56-year-old woman was visiting her brother, Yaron, in Harlem on Thursday when she found the vile message on her silver Kia SUV parked near Marcus Garvey Park on West 124th Street at around 5:45 p.m., the brother and cops said.

“She was shocked. This is something that has never happened to us,” Yaron told PIX11 News on Monday.

Hours before the disturbing discovery, Yaron said he and his sister were walking along 124th Street when a passerby yelled, “Free Palestine.”

Yaron said they ignored the 6-foot stranger in a black baseball cap.

“It’s one of those things you feel would never happen to you, and if it does, it happens to someone else, not you,” he said. “This time it ended with vandalism. Next time it could be violence.”

Police said the antisemitic incident is being investigated by the Hate Crimes Task Force. There have been no arrests.

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

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I’m tired of this man and everyone misusing terms and buzzwords.

Israel’s existence as a Jewish state is considered illegitimate, yet you’ll never see them say this about any Muslim or Christian (or any other recognized religious) state, and that isn’t even an accurate comparison. Israel is an “ethnostate,” but you’ll never see them say this about any Arab states or, like, Japan or Ireland. glaringly obvious what their problem is.

Come on now. Mayor Smiler loves ACTUAL Ethnostates. You know. States that meet the definition. Not ones with Jews he implies legally are. He likes the ones ruled by people he perceives as human.

Spencer has told journalists that his vision of a white ethnostate ought to be compared to Zionism. “In the mid 19th century, many Jews in Central Europe had an idea of an ethno-state, an idea of Zionism, and they were considered ridiculous and insane,” Spencer told Vice in 2013. He used similar language in 2017 during his brief national college tour, telling students that one state he often turned to for guidance was Israel. That same year, Spencer even told Israel’s Channel 2 News that he saw himself as a “white Zionist.” “You could say that I am a white Zionist in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves,” the newspaper Haaretz, quoting from his TV appearance, said. “Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel.” Yet, in the leaked audio from Charlottesville, Spencer purportedly screams to a room of cheering supporters: “Little f—— k—-. They get ruled by people like me.” As in his comparisons to Zionism, Spencer – and others ­– have used the moniker of identitarianism to distance themselves from their movement’s violent, racist past. The term alludes to racial and ethno-national identity politics but also implies a forceful rejection of multiculturalism and ethnopluralism.

Political streamer Hasan Piker, one of the most influential voices in progressive online media, has drawn criticism after suggesting that California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) should have anticipated a hostile reception at San Francisco’s Trans March because of his past positions on Israel.

Piker, a self-described progressive with a massive online following who has experienced a surge of influence within the Democratic Party in recent years, was reacting to footage circulating online showing Wiener, who is Jewish and gay, being jeered by some attendees at the annual LGBTQ+ event. Critics of the confrontation characterized it as antisemitic harassment directed at an elected official attending a community gathering, pointing to one agitator who told Wiener he had “stopped being Queer” when he indicated support for Israel.

During a livestream, Piker argued that Wiener’s record on Israel and the Palestinians made such backlash predictable, and suggested the senator had attended the pride event to incite a negative reaction. “Maybe he wants these videos to exist,” Piker said, accusing Wiener of “farming sympathy.” He added: “Of course this is gonna happen, what are u thinking? This is like if I went to a Klan rally, they would probably kill me.”

Piker continued, suggesting that politicians who have previously supported Israel should expect to face anger from activists, particularly within progressive spaces that have grown increasingly critical of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. He also argued that reactions to the incident would be exploited by what he described as pro-Israel centrists.

“This is catnip for the centrists who are very shy about revealing their position on Israel because it’s pro-Israel,” Piker said. “They see this video and they go, ‘See, you can’t appease these monsters. They’ll harass you endlessly.'”

He added: “I think the extent of your advocacy for Israel has to match your extent of advocacy for Palestine and Palestinians.”

The remarks sparked criticism from commentators who argued that Piker was effectively excusing hostile treatment of a public official based on his political views rather than condemning harassment. Supporters countered that he was simply describing the political reality of attending an event where many participants strongly oppose Israel’s policies.

Wiener, who is running for Congress, has made LGBT advocacy a central element of his political career and has spearheaded multiple initiatives to expand opportunities and reduce discrimination against the LGBT community in San Francisco. He faced criticism after initially declining to accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. After reported backlash from LGBT activists and members of his own campaign staff, Wiener posted a video in which he accused Israel of committing what he described as “genocide” in Gaza, citing Israeli strikes on hospitals and schools as evidence.

Piker has made attacking Israel a central feature of his commentary, frequently characterizing the country as “genocidal” and drawing comparisons with Nazi Germany. He has claimed Israel “has no right to exist” and has openly defended Hamas. He has also drawn condemnation for denying the documented Oct. 7 rapes of Israeli women and faced allegations of antisemitism after calling Orthodox Jews “inbred.”

Despite the controversy surrounding his commentary, Piker’s profile has risen substantially in recent months. Prestige outlets including The New York Times and The New Yorker have published what critics described as uncritical profiles of the streamer, and several far-left, anti-Israel candidates he endorsed have won Democratic primaries, cementing his reputation as a kingmaker within the party.

The episode reflects the deepening tensions within progressive politics over the Israel-Hamas war, with disagreements over Israel increasingly spilling into LGBTQ+ advocacy spaces — and raising serious questions about the future of Israel supporters and Jews within left-wing organizations and the Democratic Party.

many jews experience debates about israel as directly affecting jewish life because other people often collapse the distinction for us. take the woman who was assaulted on a NYC subway while her attacker said "jews are eating kids," or Dan Goldman the rep of the 10th district in NYC who was publicly lambasted by a local coffee shop for getting coffee there, or Scott Wiener a California state legislator who was harassed by masked people at a pride march. the woman on the subway wasn't attacked because of anything she had personally said or done regarding israel. goldman had only gone into the coffee shop because his daughter needed to use the restroom and bought a coffee as a thank you. wiener is a gay jewish legislator with a solid track record of defending trans rights who had the gall to appear at a trans rights event.

the woman was attacked because she was jewish in public, goldman was harangued for being being jewish with a public platform, and wiener was chased out of the event for being jewish. and people projected the actions of the israeli government onto them. (and before people start saying 'well goldman and wiener are pro-israel politicians!' i implore you to take a look at their voting record and see just how run of the mill democrat they actually are on the topic)

incidents like these make it difficult for many jews to treat israel as merely a foreign policy issue, because public attitudes toward Israel often become attitudes toward jews in practice.