call me Adaptus the way Pharma lives rent free in my brain

Karl Marx effectively renounced Judaism altogether, married a gentile woman (on whom, I might add, he dumped every bit of domestic labor while he drank and navel-gazed), and wrote an incredibly antisemitic essay called "On the Jewish Question" where he rebutted someone else's antisemitism by saying that "practical Judaism" was "huckstering and money," that "the Christians have become Jews," and that humankind needed to be emancipated from this so-called "practical Judaism."

Lenin, who had a single Jewish grandmother, insisted that Jews needed to assimilate in order to have a utopian Communist society and that Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe was their own fault for remaining a separate community. As far as I know, he did not routinely interact with Jews.

Trotsky is arguably the only Jewish figure in early Communism to have considered antisemitism an undeserved and extrinsic evil, and even he considered it largely a Tsarist evil. He changed his name from Bronstein to a "revolutionary" one. At one point, he said that he was a Bolshevik, not a Jew, and he even considered rejecting a position in the Communist government because he thought that there shouldn't be too many Jews in high positions. (The "Judeo-Bolshevik" stereotype was based on him, not on an actual environment friendly to Jews.) The party also turned on him when he started speaking out against Stalin, and he was eventually killed with an ice pick to the head while in exile.

he actually says, “go back to your Zionist homeland, because it won’t last much longer,” which is worse.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/05/london-pride-march-jewish-revellers-harassed-met-police/

Metropolitan Police officers watched and made no arrests as Jewish people were abused at London’s Pride March at the weekend.

Scotland Yard said it was investigating anti-Semitic abuse after footage posted online showed Jewish attendees being harassed, heckled and intimidated in Soho on Saturday.

The clips showed people holding Israeli and rainbow LGBT+ flags being told to “go back to your Zionist homeland” and told that “you kill Arab children, you kill gay children” in reference to the war in Gaza.

One woman appeared to shout “f--- you, Jew”, while other people repeatedly shouted “free Palestine”.

Although officers could be seen standing in the street, the Met admitted that it had made no arrests for racist or religious abuse, but had done so for several unrelated offences.

A force spokesman said: “We are aware of videos circulating online that show anti-Semitic verbal abuse directed towards attendees at the Pride in London event. Officers are currently reviewing footage to assess and investigate.”

A number of videos showed several people abusing Jewish attendees at Pride.

One woman was called a “Jew-hater” as she was seen repeatedly asking “how many babies did they kill?” before making a reference to the Israel Defense Forces.

A man wearing a rainbow-coloured Star of David on his T-shirt was told by an elderly man: “You kill Arab children, you kill gay children.” Police watched as he said: “What you need to do is go back to your Zionist homeland, because it won’t last much longer.”

A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The transition from ‘free Palestine’ to ‘f--- Jews’ is usually silent. This incident shows it loudly and explicitly.

“It’s incredible, not to mention depressing, how many people still trip over themselves to apologise for and defend the extremism of the ‘Free Palestine’ movement. The authorities need to recognise it for what it is. That can start with identifying and punishing the perpetrators of this incident.

“Jewish people have given up expecting to be included in so-called inclusive movements, but they should still be entitled to the same protections under the law as everybody else.”

The incidents are the latest in a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in London, including the alleged attempted murder of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London, and the firebombing of ambulances operated by a Jewish organisation in the same area.

The Met previously announced a community protection team of 100 officers to safeguard the Jewish community.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, had called for 300 extra officers to tackle what he has called a growing “pandemic” of anti-Semitism in Britain.

I think they're people.

Much of my early childhood was spent interacting with a Russian expat community, and Russian was even my first language because of my babysitter. I've known so many great Chinese people; a scientist from Shanghai was my lab boss for four years in grad school. I work with Turkish subspecialty fellows. Everyone is a person. They're all deserving of kindness and safety, either here or at home.

EVEN IF THEY SUPPORT THEIR GOVERNMENTS.

I don't want ethnic Russians kicked out of a free Ukraine, Han Chinese out of Tibet or Taiwan, or Turkish nationals out of the Caucasus or Kurdistan. Everyone deserves a home, and "this land BELONGS TO X group, not Y group" is disgusting ethnonationalism on the level of everything leftists claim to despise. Land "belongs to" no one. Land is shared. It's a loan from the planet. Any other view is just repackaged xenophobia.

And no, I don't support what the US did in Dresden or interrogate Germans about what their grandparents did, either. I don't refuse to interact with Lithuanians despite them gunning my family down in 1941 and probably taking their homes. A human being is a human being.

This is why it is not assimilationist for gay/queer people to want to enshrine marriage rights in their country/region

Similarly, this is why polyamorous people are fighting for the right to have their relationships recognised by their states through marriage and/or similar agreements

Oh, and because on top of those aforementioned financial and medical protections, these laws also help you maintain connection to any kids you have and/or raise together!

Every older queer you know who is in a longterm relationship will have similar stories of how we planned our whole lives to protect what would have been granted nigh automatically if we were heterosexual.

For Natalya Reznik and Ed Victor, Tuesday’s primary victory of Melat Kiros, now a Democratic congressional nominee for much of Denver, cut deep and took them back to the horrific first day in June 2025 when they attended an 18-minute protest walk to call for the release of hostages taken from Israel into Gaza on Oct. 7.

That day, Reznik, 54, and her husband carried posters of hostages Lior Rudaeff and Yair Yaakov whose bodies were later returned. As always, the mostly Jewish group of 28 walked quietly, letting their signs do the talking.

“Since 10/7 I was devastated. I expected people everywhere, not just in America, to take to the streets to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages,” said Reznik who came to the U.S. 30 years ago from St. Petersburg, Russia “I was so naive — I really thought this was so horrific that it just couldn’t go unnoticed. But what I saw was the opposite — people took to the streets to protest Israel.”

Reznik didn’t hear a man shouting “Free Palestine” — others did — before she noticed her feet getting hot. She looked down to find much of her lower body on fire, likely from a Molotov cocktail. She rolled over on the grass to put them out. Another woman, Karen Diamond, was engulfed in flames.

Dressed up as a gardener so as not to be noticed in the park outside the Boulder County Courthouse, the attacker, Mohamed Soliman, 46, later told prosecutors he had researched “Zionist” events in the area.

But when a news anchor ahead of the primary asked Kiros whether the attack had been antisemitic, the former lawyer turned doctoral candidate drew a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. She tried to make the case that no one could presume Soliman’s motive.

“I don’t know what was in the heart of the perpetrator,” Kiros told a local Colorado station last month. “All I know is that he attacked innocent people because of what they might have believed. And I don’t even know what the people that were at that protest believed, too. In fact most of them were probably just there to ask that the people who were kidnapped on Oct. 7 be returned to their families.”

That logic found little purchase with Ed Victor, a resident of Louisville, Colorado, who had also been at the Boulder courthouse that day.

“You don’t have to look at his heart,” Victor said. “You can look at his actions.”

Soliman pleaded guilty to more than 100 felony charges in state court but not guilty to hate crime charges. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The success of Kiros, 29, a Democratic Socialist of America in her first run for public office, echoed the victories of DSA-backed candidates Darializa Chevalier and Claire Valdez in New York, who similarly drew a line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Like those candidates, Kiros has advocated for one state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians.

Reznik does not live in the deep-blue district Kiros will be favored to win in November, which represents the largest Jewish community in Colorado. But she said Kiros’ victory was the result of a callousness toward Jewish people that now defines the attitude of the general public.

“It’s an uncomfortable feeling,” said Reznik, a Russian Jewish immigrant. “This is not the country I came to 30 years ago. I no longer feel that people in Congress even hold the same values that I do.”

Reznik’s burns from the attack that day covered 40% of her legs and left arm. She spent one week in intensive care and another in the hospital recovering from surgery. It was in the ICU that she first encountered people online trying to downplay the attack as anti-Zionist rather than antisemitic – a discourse that seemed to legitimize violence against Jews and continued to unfold in the hours and days after the firebombing.

“They’re encouraging people who are antisemites, who are simply scum, to feel as political activists,” Reznik said. “They speak the language of the murderers.”

Kiros’ equivocating comments ahead of Tuesday’s primary divided Denver Jews, with one rabbi who described herself as a “liberal Jew” writing in the Denver Post that Kiros’ candidacy “scared her.” Another Jewish writer defended Kiros, arguing that the candidate’s criticism is directed at the Israeli government and military, not the Jewish people.

In an interview on CNN the day after her primary win, Kiros tried to allay fears, adding that the “conflation of the actions of the state of Israel and the Jewish people … is putting them at greater risk.”

“My commitment is to protecting the sanctity of human life and dignity and that includes combating the hate and the rising antisemitism that we are seeing,” she said.

But for the survivors of that day’s attack who heard Kiros’ equivocation ahead of the primary, it was hard not to feel fear – and fury. Reznik saw Kiros’ refusal to call the attack antisemitic as the height of hypocrisy.

“There’s nothing I can say to her,” she said, “because I know she’s one of the people who’s not listening.”

I want to add, a state primary hinging on foreign policy and opposition to another country is not normal:

You are directly harming your own cause.

Refusing to acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel doesn’t materially change the reality that Israel is a sovereign nation with over ten million citizens. When leftists in the west chant “from the river to the sea” and “we don’t want no two states”, regardless of the intention, what do you think Israelis hear? What do you think a people that has faced genocide in living memory, from which our population still has not recovered, gets from that? We don’t hear it and consider your points, we hear it and remember all of the times Israel has been attacked with genocidal intent, and only survived through our own defense.

And what does this ultimately result it? It results in Israelis who no longer believe in the peace process. It results in Israelis who feel a visceral sense of fear which leads to doubling down on national security. It leads to diaspora Jews feeling unsafe in their communities and immigrating to Israel.

When Jewish Women International began speaking out on behalf of Israeli women who experienced sexual violence during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, or during captivity in Gaza, the organization quickly received new funding and partners for its “I Believe Israeli Women” campaign.

Another project, focused on supporting young Jewish women who have felt isolated “in a post-October 7th world,” has also been popular with philanthropic foundations.

But its work to support female victims of violence in the U.S. — historically a core part of its mission — relies on federal government grants that have evaporated in the second Trump administration, sending the whole organization reeling.