#Antisemitism and holocaust denialism / Netanyahu whitewashes Holocaust history during meeting with Orbán

Wanted war criminal #Netanyahu deliberately avoided mentioning #Hungary's role in the systematic extermination of over 400,000 Hungarian Jews under the Miklós Horthy regime. Instead, he constructed a fictional narrative of shared fate between Hungarians and Jews.

When referencing post-WWII suffering, he highlighted Polish victims while carefully omitting that the Soviet Union was the occupier—likely to avoid offending #Putin, another conservative ally.

Not the first time for Netanyahu, who’s been practicing historical revisionism, accused of holocaust denial, showing how far the Israel will go to cement alliances with leaders who share his hate of #Islam and international legal institutions, like the #ICC and #ICJ.

[…] On the path to global right-wing unity, allies are forced to make compromises. Netanyahu, for example, partially sacrificed Israel's most sacred historical memory. In his remarks alongside Orbán, he did mention the Holocaust, but constructed an imagined narrative about a shared destiny between Hungarians and Jews. Additionally, Netanyahu avoided mentioning the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews and the responsibility of Miklós Horthy's regime, Hungary's ruler at the time, for the systematic extermination of more than 400,000 Jews.

[…] Instead, Netanyahu emphasized the suffering of Poles under the occupation that followed World War II. But here too, he avoided mentioning the occupiers - the Soviet Union. This could have offended another conservative ally - Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu and Orbán also preferred not to allow the many journalists in the hall to ask questions, which might have embarrassed each of them individually and both of them together. The unity of the global right sometimes requires walking on eggshells.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-04-04/ty-article/.premium/00000195-fc7b-df89-a39f-fc7b1e720000 or https://archive.is/UYoCh

@israel
#HistoricalRevisionism
#HolocaustMemory​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NYC education department investigating after office sends out antisemitic toolkit

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-education-department-investigating-after-office-sends-out-antisemitic-toolkit/

Newsletter sent out by career services group includes link to ‘Stop Gaza Genocide’ document, prompting outcry from Jewish education advocates

Douglas Murray at the Munk debate:

"The interesting thing about antisemitism is, the Jews can never win. Because historically they've been hated for being rich, and for being poor. They've been hated for integrating, and for not integrating. They've been hated for being stateless, and now they are hated for having a state.

Today the only really acceptable form of antisemitism, tolerated antisemitism, is antizionism."

https://www.europesays.com/1968651/ Trump administration sends list of demands to Harvard #Antisemitism #HarvardUniversity #ResearchFundingCuts #tariffs #TheWhiteHouse #trump #TrumpAdministration

"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.

In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/03/adl-condemns-trump-deportations-campus-protesters/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#Trump Admin Set to Pause $510 Million for #BrownUniversity

The admin has now targeted 5 #schools’ federal #funding claiming it’s part of a pledge to combat what it has labeled #antisemitism, but what in actuality is #students exercising their #RightToProtest on #university campuses.

#law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #extortion #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-brown-university-funding-pause.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CE266166-B715-45A7-9A62-0A68EE55B1CD

Harvard sanctions pro-Palestinian group after anti-Israel protest

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-848809

Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity said the university is silencing pro-Palestinian voices.

“…the Trump administration is not acting in good faith in its purported antisemitism concerns, nor is it following the law in its approach to universities. President Trump offered praise to a white-supremacist rally that included chants of ‘Jews will not replace us,’ publicly dined with Holocaust deniers, made common cause with Germany’s Nazi-descendant AfD party and invoked tropes about wealthy Jews. The true motivation behind his attack on universities is suggested by Vice President JD Vance’s declaration that the ‘universities are the enemy.’” —Larry Summers, economist, professor at Harvard University #HigherEd #academia #universities #education #AntiEducationRepublicans #AntiSemitism #Trump #TrumpAdministration #Columbia

Today In Labor History April 3, 1950: Composer Kurt Weill died. Weill’s most famous song was Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"), which became a schlock classic after Bobby Darin’s rendition. However, Weill wrote the song as part of Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera,” which was a socialist critique of the capitalist world. Weill was persecuted by the Nazis for his political views and his Jewish heritage. He fled to America, with his wife, singer Lotte Lenya. Some of Weill’s other well-known songs include: Alabama Song (covered by the Doors), Pirate Jenny (covered by Nina Simone), Mack the Knife (also covered by Louis Armstrong), Der Kleine des Lieben Gottes (covered by John Zorn).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orDcL0zt34

Arresting activists "is not going to protect Jews. We're being used." -- Rabbi Sharon Brous
#antisemitism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/jews-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

"... the current obsession with a definition of antisemitism is obscene. We are distracted from the horror by panic about an alleged explosion of antisemitism and concerns about Jewish safety – even though it’s been exposed as mostly bullshit.

My mother and grandmother survived the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, and I grew up hearing their stories. So, l think I know antisemitism when I see it. In fact, there has never been any antisemitism at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime.

Saying “F**k Israel” or “F**k Zionism” is not antisemitic."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/peter-slezaks-speech-to-the-uts-rally-on-26-march/
@palestine

#AusPol
#zionism
#censorship
#antisemitism
#repession

"Although the contributions here were written before the events of October 7, it is impossible to read the book outside of the many conflicts that continue to divide the left on the question of Israel and Palestine. At times, the arguments here lack a sufficiently critical perspective on Israel, Zionism and the political economy of occupation. Antisemitism, indeed, exists. There are also antisemitic perspectives regarding the state of Israel and Zionism. In a treatment of the Initiative Socialist Forum (ISF), for example, Stoetzler relates some of the history regarding the anti-Zionism of the Stalinist and Maoist, German New Left (16-17). The politics of antisemitism, however, is also being instrumentalized by defenders of Israeli policy against those who express solidarity for occupied Palestine. Although one does find a differential account of the Frankfurt School’s varying political orientations in regarding Zionism here, too often the treatment of the Palestine question plays into equivocations regarding the politics of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in a manner that reduces all criticism of Israel to pathologized forms of anti-imperialism or anti-capitalism. The uncritical acceptance of an absolute identity of Israeli policy and Jewishness can also be a form of antisemitism, as Braune observes (165). Such equivocation preempts the possibility of enlightened, rational criticism of Israeli policies. Can such a critical perspective that grasps the concrete violence of Israel-Palestine be grasped in its mediation by capitalist society? At times it seems not. Still, the arguments presented here are far from monolithic­, and should be considered."

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22052_critical-theory-and-the-critique-of-antisemitism-by-marcel-stoetzler-ed-reviewed-by-charles-a-prusik/

A few years ago, the people behind the now-defunct white nationalist website VDARE bought a castle (yes, a castle) in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It got a fair bit of coverage at the time, but there hasn't been all that much reporting on what they've been doing in there since then.

Now it's clear that the castle was the venue for a recent conference that brought a bunch of Patriot Front goons to town, along with a handful of leading antisemitic and "race science" intellectuals from around the US. And this is after the VDARE people promised to be nice, quiet neighbors.

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On March 7-9 of this year, the neo-fascist American Freedom Party (AFP) held what it billed as its “National Convention” at a location that organizers kept secret from the public. Participants later said that it was in West Virginia without specifying where, however they did post photos from the conference online. A close examination of these images reveals that the conference took place at the Berkeley Springs Castle, which is owned by the people who ran the now-defunct white nationalist website VDARE.

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The Brimelows’ presence has been a source of tension in Berkeley Springs from the start. Peter Brimelow has downplayed residents’ concerns, saying that he wasn’t organizing big rallies in town or doing anything disruptive and that “We just want to be quiet, good neighbors.” Yet the VDARE website also described the castle as a “meeting place” for like-minded people, and Lydia Brimelow stated during a 2022 podcast appearance that “My vision is it becomes a big hub of American patriotism.”

One reason why the recent conference is noteworthy is because it provided exactly the kind of “meeting place” that VDARE promised while breaking any sort of commitment to simply be “quiet, good neighbors,” highlighting the inherent contradiction between the two.

https://alasbarricadas.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/31/a-fascist-gathering-in-west-virginia/

Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon