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I keep thinking about an interaction I had with my therapist earlier this year. For context, my therapist isn't old, but she's past middle age. She is also Jewish.

I was explaining to her the feeling of hurt and betrayal that's somewhat unique to leftist antisemitism. That you expect this from neo nazis, but not the people you've spent years fighting them with. That's it's coming from the same people that just a few years ago were all saying how they would have hidden Jews.

"Wait go back. Hidden Jews?"

"Yeah, as in 'If I had been alive during the Holocaust, I would have saved Jews by hiding them.'"

And her response, without missing a beat-

"What a weird and uncomfortable thing to say."

And I was about to explain when it hit me. She was absolutely right. Why broadcast to the world that you are willing to stand atop the corpses of 6 million Jews as long as they make a good soapbox? We are more than fodder for your messiah complex.

The islamic republic is an evil dictatorship that has to be destroyed before more it has killed more innocent people in my country

We’re already 47 years too late!

This is what the no war bisharafs are standing for! More torture and rape for Iranian people

this is the piece:

its very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression.

The night before it was due to open, Gail’s was daubed with red paint. Less than a week later, all its windows were smashed in.

[…] Does any of this move the dial in the occupied territories even one iota? Almost certainly not. But perhaps this is simply the nature of an increasingly disenfranchised age. Palestinian activism has arguably never been less capable of exerting a meaningful influence on global events, and so is increasingly defined by small acts of petty symbolism. A smashed window. A provocative sticker. You can’t lay a glove on the US-Israeli military-industrial complex, and you can’t get your local council to boycott Israeli goods, and you couldn’t stand with Palestine Action and the protest march on Sunday has been banned by the Metropolitan police. So some people then direct their ire at the bakery with distant links to Israeli security funding.

sure, it’s not meaningful activism, and it’s not changing or helping anything, but don’t worry, some smashed windows and targeted harassment of Jews and Jewish businesses (however tenuous the connection - the Jewish founder sold the company in 2021), is simply a justified grievance.

The Islamic regime is set to execute Melika Azizi

She was arrested during the January protests, beaten and now the regime wants to kill her!

Please be her voice

If you want to help, the two things that will make the most impact are SPREADING AWARENESS, and participating in PUBLIC COMMENT while it is still open.

‼️LINK TO FDA COMMENT PAGE‼️

Document: FDA-2025-P-7321

As of the time this article was written, ALL public comments were from hate groups in support of this registry. Every single comment in opposition will help.

If you click the more details button, you'll see a small section that reads "In some instances, agencies do not publicly post all comments received. You can only access those comments that are posted to Regulations.gov by the agencies. The number of accessible comments, therefore, may be lower than the total number of comments listed in the card below." This basically means that, out of the 6,897 comments that have been recieved, the agency has only decided to post 61 of them. The latest post of those 61 dates back to Febuary 27th. Clearly, that leaves 6,836 comments unaccounted for, and not posted. (Likely, because the 6,836 not posted are in opposition to this petition.) Now, if you go to comment like I did today, you might notice this:

This is a lie! The comment period is still accepting late comments, but what you have to do is click the Docket Document tab, which will bring you to two documents. The acknowledgement letter is closed for comments. THE CITIZEN PETITION IS STILL ACCEPTING LATE COMMENTS.

also, the more I learn about all the pogroms and massacres and outright genocides of Jews over the millennia, the more I think that it’s not “we were doing okay and then the political climate changed.”

I think it’s “we started doing okay and that’s why the political climate changed.”

far too many of those changes are in direct response to the local Jewish population getting too big, being granted rights, or just doing okay for once, for it not to be a pattern.

One of these days, I’m going to go through the extraordinarily long list and see if that applies to all the pogroms and exiles that I’m not familiar with.

I just remembered how much the field of minority stress (aka oppression) relies on trying to identify what resilience looks like, and how to teach resilience.

and like. first of all if you want to see a resilient community that has stuck to its culture and history and identity and folkways throughout millennia of oppression, look to the Jews for fuck’s sake.

but second: that field acts like if oppressed groups can just be resilient while fighting for rights and increasing awareness, everything will eventually be okay.

because it’s founded upon studying the effects of oppression on queer people.

And like. that seems to work pretty well for most groups.

(it’s my Psychology of Diversity class slide deck)

As for Jews, here are the next couple slides

I think the theory absolutely does hold up for Jews, if tweaked a little. The issue is that the people most likely to recognize it for every other minority don’t recognize Jews as a minority, further perpetuating the cycle of minority stress.

While I have you here, some TEDTalks:

The Danger of A Single Story -Ngozi Chimimanda (spelling from memory)

Hopefully I'm not late to the party with this one ya'll. Let's talk about the absolute joke of a man that is Joe Kent?

Kent is essentially speed-running the "Nazi Conspiracy Blitz" like it’s a competitive sport. This man has officially moved past "questionable takes" and into "full-blown Elders of Zion fanboy" territory.

Some Highlight for those unaware:

The Ghoulish Exploitation: Imagine losing your wife to an ISIS suicide bomber and then going on a neo-Nazi podcast to claim that Israel sent the bomber specifically to get her. He is literally using his own family's tragedy to push "Jews control ISIS" blood libels. He's not just a liar, he's a full blown sociopath

The "Jewish COVID" Myth: Yes you read correctly. Kent's out here claiming "they" (you know who he means) invented COVID.

2020 Kent vs 2026 Kent: In 2020 he twitted "Don't sit and wait! Wipe out Iran's ballistic capability now! They are a threat!", now he's resigning because "Iran is no threat and those 'Evil Zionists' tricked us into this!". Yeah nah, he just found a way to blame Jews for a policy he was literally begging for six years ago.

He’s out here shouting that Netanyahu "lied us into Iraq." My guy, Ariel Sharon was PM in 2003, not Bibi, and he actually told Bush not to do it. But why let facts get in the way of a good "Jews start all wars" lie?

He’s married to a writer for The Grayzone (the place for people who think every atrocity is a "false flag") and spends his free time on Nazi podcasts.