The Stucky Library

Give Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine. Put boots on the ground in Western Ukraine to free up Ukrainian forces for the front. And give them every weapon they need.

this has been mercilessly review bombed and called “propaganda” despite it being documented footage from that day and comprising the testimony of survivors and responders. I can’t imagine any other victims of such atrocities or any other documentary subject being maligned this way.

please don’t traumatize yourselves by watching if you do not feel able to, we all know what happened and we’ve been grappling with that terror and pain ceaselessly, but if you do want to bear witness or support these survivors, victims, and filmmakers, amplify it however you can.

Mentioning the hostages is propaganda.

Saying the hostages should be returned is propaganda.

Saying Hamas killed civilians is propaganda.

Saying Hamas raped people is propaganda.

Saying Hamas took hostages is propaganda.

Saying any of the above was bad is propaganda.

All of the above is also justifiable resistance.

If you disagree with any of the above, you are justifying genocide.

Probably if any civilians died, the IDF killed them.

Hamas attacked because Zionism, not because Jews.

Whatever Hamas did do means that Israel was oppressing Palestinians in ways that are equally bad or even worse.

Palestinians tried peaceful resistance. It didn't work. This was their only option.

Hamas attacked to Free Palestine. Israel attacked to commit genocide.

Nazis don't hate and want to eliminate Jews, they are Jews.

A concentration camp isn't a place where a marginalized group is imprisoned for medical experimentation, slave labor, psychological torture ("re-education"), and frequent arbitrary murder for funsies.

A concentration camp is a war zone where you can't cross the border without the permission of the neighboring country, which is charging $5,000-$10,000 per person who wants to leave.

Egypt charging refugees thousands of dollars to leave during a war is not war profiteering; it's fine; we don't need to protest it or demand it stops. We just need to help with all the GoFundMes we can.

Colonialism isn't when one country invades others, defeats them in warl

Poland didn't start the Holocaust with 3,300,000 Jews and kill 3,056,000 of them. Certainly not partly because the Polish government and civilians joyfully helped the Nazis hunt down almost every single Jew in the country. Poland DEFINITELY didn't make it illegal in 2018 to say that Poland shared any responsibility "for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich."

Obviously, the truth is that the 148,000 Jews who emigrated from post-Holocaust Poland are privileged white settler-colonialist oppressors; made up the vast majority of Israel's population (which by 1949 was 1,174,000); and should just go back to Poland (where there are currently about 5,000 Jews left).

Colonialism itself isn't when a powerful country invades others, uses genocidal rape, torture, and murder on everyone it doesn't enslave, and sends its resources back to the empire. That's just silly.

Colonialism is when people who have been enslaved, raped, tortured, murdered, and chased from country to country in between, for hundreds and hundreds of years, flee back to their homeland.

That's also white supremacy, surprisingly.

A doctor in London said something on television last week that ought to have been a national scandal. Somehow, it wasn’t.

He told ITV News that colleagues of his had said that if an Israeli arrived in the emergency room, dying, they would not treat him. They wouldn’t refuse his referral to their care. They’d purposely let him die on the gurney, on the principle of where he was born.

The doctor goes by Baruch. He would only give his first name. He and his wife, Daniella, are packing up their home in Golders Green and moving to Israel, and the ITV crew filmed them doing it. He mentioned, almost in passing, that he had also seen Jewish patients refused kosher meals. The Department of Health called his account “shocking” and admitted, in writing, that the medical regulatory system is failing to protect Jewish patients and staff.

Hold the part about the dying patient for a second, because it is the whole story in miniature.

A hospital works on one promise. The person who comes through the door gets treated. You do not check his passport. You do not poll the room about his politics. The promise is older than any of us, and it is the reason a stranger will let another stranger cut into his chest.The Hippocratic Oath that all doctors swear to. When a doctor decides that a nationality is grounds to withhold care, that oath hasn’t just been broken. It has been abandoned by the people who need to keep it the most.

That is what makes the medical version of antisemitism different from everything else in the news. You can argue forever about flags and slogans, about what a particular chant really means when ten thousand people sing it while marching in a Jewish neighborhood. You cannot argue about a man bleeding out in front of you. The case is closed before it opens.

Baruch is not imagining the weather around him. The same week his interview aired, Lord John Mann published a sixty-page review of antisemitism in the UK National Health Service (NHS.) It found that Jewish staff “suffer in silence,” that they face what the report calls routine ostracism, and that Jewish staff are the only religious group in the NHS for whom discrimination from colleagues is rising rather than falling. Some are thinking of leaving the service. The government accepted the recommendations and promised new training and standards. Good. But training is a plan for people who haven't yet made up their minds. It does nothing about the colleague who already decided some patients aren't worth saving.

In April, the Jewish Chronicle profiled three British doctors who had already left the NHS for Israel, among them a young pediatrician from north-west London and a GP who said plainly that she could not have coped with the antisemitism her Manchester colleagues were living with. Across the Atlantic, Dr. Emmanuel Moss, chief of cardiac surgery at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and one of Canada’s leading robotic heart surgeons, has resigned and is moving to Atlanta. He cited the climate in the city, where synagogues have been firebombed and bullets were fired at a yeshiva.

Look at the job titles. A cardiac surgeon. A children’s doctor. The clinicians you want on the schedule when it is your kid on the table at two in the morning. These are not people who spook easily, and they are not cheap or quick to replace. A surgeon takes well over a decade to train. When that is who decides to go first, you are not watching people flee an inconvenience. You are watching them flee an actual risk.

Here is the honst part, and it cuts against the alarm. By the raw numbers, there is no exodus. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research looked at the data this spring. In 2025, 742 British Jews made aliyah, the highest count in over forty years. But that figure still sits inside the normal range of the last two decades, which runs from about four hundred to about seven hundred a year. Roughly one Israeli moves to Britain for every British Jew who leaves for Israel. JPR’s director put it flatly: there is no Jewish exodus from the UK, at least not yet. So if you want to file all of this under noise, the spreadsheet will let you.

The spreadsheet is measuring the wrong thing. A census counts volume. This was never about volume. It is about composition, about which people are the first to quietly conclude they have no future somewhere. When the early movers are the surgeons and the paediatricians, the number on the page can stay small while the signal screams. The canary in the coal mine was never impressive by weight, either.

Britain and America, of all places, should be able to read this signal because they were once the lucky recipients of the same event running the other way.

In the 1930s, Germany and Austria purged their Jewish physicians. First, the 1933 civil service law pushed them out of public positions. Then, the regime forbade Jewish doctors from treating non-Jewish patients, and by 1938, it had stripped their medical licenses outright. The doctors did not vanish. They got on boats. A great deal of them landed in London and New York and rebuilt Anglo-American medicine and science over the following half-century. The countries that opened the door spent the next hundred years collecting the dividend.

Germany’s own healthcare measurably degraded once so many of the healers were gone, with child and maternal health indicators sliding in the wrong direction. The lesson is not subtle. A government can revoke its doctors' licenses for who they are. It cannot revoke the illnesses those doctors were treating. The patients stay. The expertise leaves. The gap between the two is filled with funerals.

What is happening now is that same experiment, this time running in gentler register. Nobody is passing a law. No license is being torn up. The pressure is ambient and plausibly deniable. A kippah that comes off before the ward round. A colleague who muses that some patients aren’t worth the trouble. A regulator the government itself concedes is not doing its job. Doctors are trained to detect diseases from their earliest signs. That’s exactly what they are doing, and it’s making them choose to leave.

The cost is not theoretical. The NHS is carrying roughly 100,000 vacant posts. More than four in ten of its licensed doctors are qualified abroad. On any given day, the service is busy persuading physicians in Lagos and Manila to uproot their lives and come to fill a British ward. In that same season, it is handing the doctors a quiet list of reasons to go. A health system that imports clinicians by the planeload while supplying its own with reasons to leave is losing a race it set up against itself.

This is the cost that gets lost when the conversation stays on antisemitism as a question of feelings and offense. The Jewish doctor who leaves does not take only himself. He takes the operations he would have performed, the residents he would have trained, and the night shifts he would have covered for a colleague whose child was sick. The loss is borne by whoever needed that surgeon and now waits longer, or does not get seen, and will mostly never know the trade that was made on his behalf.

Every single person on this planet thinks about dark and taboo things. It's literally the most normal thing in the world.

The morning of August 3, 2014 began like every other morning in Kocho.

Then the trucks arrived.

Nadia Murad was 21 years old, living in a small farming village of about 1,700 people in northern Iraq. She was Yazidi, a member of one of the oldest religious minorities on earth, a community that had survived centuries of persecution and still held onto its language, its traditions, and its land in the hills of Sinjar.

ISIS had decided they would not survive this.

The men of Kocho were separated first. Nadia's six brothers were marched to the edge of the village. Her mother was taken with the older women. They were led away together. Her mother did not come home. The younger women and girls were loaded onto buses. They had been given a designation in ISIS doctrine: sabaya. A word that meant they were now property.

Over the next three months, Nadia was bought and sold seven times. She was beaten, burned, and subjected to violence that left her repeatedly unconscious. When she tried to escape and was caught, the punishment was severe. She tried again anyway.

In November 2014, she found a door that had been left unlocked. She ran into the night with no plan, no money, and no certainty of anything except that she could not stay. A Muslim family in the neighborhood took the extraordinary risk of hiding her. They could have been killed for it. They did it anyway. Through a quiet network of people who refused to look away, Nadia eventually reached a refugee camp, then Germany, then safety.

She was free.

And now she had to decide what to do with that freedom.

She could have disappeared into a quiet life. No one would have blamed her. Nadia chose differently.

In December 2015, she walked into the United Nations Security Council chamber. She was 22 years old, speaking in Arabic to a room of presidents, ministers, and ambassadors. She did not use diplomatic language or careful abstractions. She named what had been done, in detail, without euphemism. She described being selected like livestock. She spoke about the youngest victims, girls as young as nine years old. She spoke for twenty minutes. When she finished, the chamber was silent.

That silence rippled outward. In 2016, the United Nations formally recognized what had been done to the Yazidis as genocide. Nadia co-founded Nadia's Initiative, an organization working to rebuild water systems, schools, and clinics in the ruins of Sinjar, giving survivors not just recognition but something to come back to.

In 2018, at 25 years old, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first Iraqi in history to receive it. At the ceremony in Oslo, she did not celebrate. She stood at the podium and reminded every leader in that room that thousands of Yazidi women and children were still missing. Still captive. Still waiting. She used the most prestigious peace prize on earth as a platform for those who had no voice left.

Nadia Murad is 32 years old today.

She is still speaking. Still demanding. Still refusing to let the world forget that a village called Kocho existed, and that the people who were taken from it had names, and families, and lives that mattered.

They tried to make her disappear.

Personally, I think many subconsciously but some very intentionally are doing this, because they want to push aside black people in the same way they treat Jews.

They just view black and jewish people as a stepping stone for "the real WHITE revolutionaries and God King Bernie Sanders" to take over and rule unquestioned and unchallenged.

Everyone and everything, from Palestine to Israel to the Civil Rights Movement is just collateral damage for their unending egomania and narcissistic wound of being denied their "rightful" place as white "liberators" and benevolent dictators.

Absolutely. The Far Left is not just deeply antisemitic but also deeply antiblack. These people are just racists who didn't fundamentally change from the people their MAGA voting parents are. They just want to feel cool and hip and rebellious about hating black people and Jews and destroying human rights. The modern Democratic part was built by Black people and Jews and Black and Jewish voters are the most reliable Democratic voting base. So it's pretty clear what the loathing these "Leftists" have for the Democratic party is really about. It's why all their "activism" is about anger and destruction and hate, not about actually building things. They could center the voices and work of Palestinian peace activists like those at Realign for Palestine but instead they talk over them and appropriate their struggle becase they don't because they don't actually care about helping anyone. They just care about something to say to make themselves feel righteous while they hurl racist slurs at black political candiates, smash synagogues, howl for the death of all jews, attempt to erase Black history and demean and harass every Black person in a position of authority.

I'm not attributing a good reason for a bad tattoo, but not everyone knows the meaning behind every tattoo. I would suggest looking at the Russian mob tattoo's or the Yakuza. I knew a ton about the Nazi's and fascism when I was in the service, but I had no idea what this particular tattoo meant until I was twenty years older.

I know a lot of people are complaining about it and now complaining about how he covered it with another tattoo from another culture. He could have covered it with flowers and you'd be mad about that too, especially if those flowers were done in the Japanese style. Some people would likely associate that with war era Japan.

like, sorry your friends were nazis, but it's past time to get your shit together and realize that.

It’s so recognizable on a pop culture level it’s literally what the skit that the “Are We the Baddies?” meme is from was joking about. It’s there in the meme

Random person on the street might not know. The state of Holocaust education is absolutely terrible, so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a person say the only Nazi symbol they recognize is the swastika.

Why are you the sort of person whose friend group consists exclusively of Nazis?