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When "anti-Zionists" were antisemites of the Right

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Einstein Letter Warning Of Zionist Facism In Israel

 

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Turkish intelligence agency MIT secretly generated content for several rabidly anti-Semitic and anti-Western websites that were set up and financed by Serhat Albayrak, a 49-year-old organized crime suspect indicted in the past as an associate to a one-time al-Qaeda financier.

According to a cache of secret documents obtained by Nordic Monitor, Albayrak, son of the late Islamist ideologue Sadık Albayrak, who was convicted and served prison time, funded and provided logistics for multiple hate-mongering websites that smeared critics and opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with defamatory anti-Semitic, anti-Western content.

Most of the content published on the websites was discreetly provided by Nuh Yılmaz, 48, a hard-core Islamist who was put in a senior position at MIT in August 2013 by the Erdoğan government. Yılmaz had worked for a Turkish publication in the 1990s that was financed by Iran and promoted the Iranian mullah regime. The magazine was shut down by a court decision, and its managers were indicted and stood trial.

MIT's black propaganda websites were identified by investigators as medyagundem.com, medyasavar.com, haber10.com and karakutu.com. The most notorious among them was Medyagundem, which peddled conspiracy theories against Jews and promoted hatred toward them with hundreds of articles and associated critics of Erdoğan with Zionist, Western plots.

"The Jews established their system on the destruction and wiping out of everybody except them," one article published on Medyagundem in July 2014 said. The unsigned article blamed Jews for all wars in the world, claiming that the more the world's population decreases, the greater amount of oxygen Jews would get. "Wherever there is a war in the world, even if the Jew is not there, s/he will be involved with weapons and the war industry materiel."

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Turkish Intel Ran Antisemitic Websites, Financed by Erdoğan's Family

Turkish intelligence agency MIT secretly generated content for several rabidly anti-Semitic and anti-Western websites that were set up and financed by Serhat Albayrak, a 49-year-old organized crime suspect indicted in the past as an associate to a

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Los Angeles City Council Passes IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism on November 1. The resolution, which was introduced by City Councilmember Paul Koretz, noted that “hate crimes reported statewide increased 32...

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“Palestine” graffitied on a Mitzvah Tank, a vehicle used by the Chabad Jewish movement to educate the public and feed the poor. Photo: Twitter.

A mobile Jewish education and social services center was vandalized in New York City during the early morning hours on Sunday.
According to CrownHeights.info, a local outlet, someone graffitied “Palestine” on a “Mitzvah Tank” operated by the Chabad Jewish movement.

Chabad ‘Mitzvah Tank’ Graffitied in Antisemitic Vandalism Incident in New York - Algemeiner.com

A mobile Jewish education and social services center was vandalized in New York City during the early morning hours on Sunday. According to CrownHeights.info, a local outlet, someone graffitied "Palestine" on a "Mitzvah Tank" operated by the Chabad Jewish movement. A Mitzvah Tank is a vehicle...

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An article in the Cleveland Jewish News, bearing the byline of reporter Becky Raspe, reads as though it was written by Oberlin College’s public relations department, and whitewashes the long-standing antisemitism problem at Oberlin that has been documented, among other places, on CAMERA’s In Focus blog.

College President Carmen Twillie Ambar has long sought to hide the school’s problem behind its Jewish Studies program and kosher dining facilities, and the CJN article promotes that talking point. (“Oberlin College celebrates 50 years of Jewish studies program,” October 19, 2022.) But at Oberlin, the Jewish Studies department appears to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

In May of last year, Oberlin Jewish Studies Chair Shari Rabin signed onto a letter that accused Israel of “Jewish supremacy,” a slur that professor Gil Troy has called “straight out of the Nazi handbook.” The letter describes modern-day Israel as featuring “unjust, enduring, and unsustainable systems of Jewish supremacy, ethnonational segregation, discrimination, and violence against Palestinians that have been forcefully condemned, including by Jews, Israeli citizens, and Israeli human rights groups such as B’Tselem.” What B’Tselem and the signatories of this letter attempt to cast as “Jewish supremacy” is in fact simply Jewish national self-determination, a national right to which Jews are no less entitled than any other group. Troy wrote in Newsweek,

Jew-haters’ obsession about Jewish “power,” as Jews endured centuries of powerlessness and persecution, proves that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest hatred, is also the most plastic hatred—artificial, fungible and sometimes lethal. Jews have been persecuted for being rich and poor, Marxist and capitalist, fitting in too much and standing out too much. Nazis justified their mass murder of Jews by escalating the canard about Jews controlling the world into a struggle against “Jewish supremacy.”

And as CAMERA has pointed out before, the language of “Jewish supremacy” also recalls the title of KKK leader David Duke’s 2002 book entitled, “Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question.”

The May 2021 letter also supports the antisemitic BDS movement: “we assert our commitment to upholding student and faculty free speech and academic freedom. This includes our colleagues’ right, if they choose to do so, to respond to ongoing events through non-violent protest, including in the form of boycott or other organized economic pressure on Israel.” The letter was written, of course, in midst of an onslaught of over 4,000 Hamas rockets directed at civilians in Israel.

Banner that was hung in Oberlin’s main square on Rosh Hashana of 2014
Yet the Cleveland Jewish News only quotes Rabin enthusiastically and uncritically. Of the 50th anniversary of Jewish studies at Oberlin, Rabin is quoted saying, “it’s an exciting milestone and we’re taking this as an opportunity to reflect …. There have been hurdles along the way, but the interest and determination to make Oberlin a place for Jewish studies and Jewish life has been ongoing throughout the years, and really inspiring to see.” Later in the article Rabin says, “Oberlin is a great place for Jewish studies and students.”

But a second Jewish Studies professor, Sheera Talpaz, also signed the May, 2021 letter. Talpaz’s biography on Oberlin’s website says that “her future work focuses on the figure of the poet-activist in Palestine/Israel.” And a third professor (out of four) in the Jewish Studies Department, Matthew Berkman, who specializes in “the Israel-Palestine conflict,” earlier this month facilitated the on-campus screening of a pro-BDS film. (One would think college professors would be aware that there is no such sovereign entity as Palestine.)


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Cleveland Jewish News helps Oberlin whitewash its antisemitism problem

At Oberlin, the Jewish Studies department appears to be part of the problem, not part of the solution. But readers would never know this

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Yesterday, Amnesty-USA issued a press release:

In light of the recent surge in antisemitic rhetoric, messages and memes, Amnesty International USA reiterates its condemnation of antisemitism in the strongest possible terms and demands action to counter antisemitism by the US government, Twitter and other social media companies.

Antisemitism is hatred. It attacks the rights and well-being of Jews around the world and the very notion of universal human rights. The right to be free from discrimination is a fundamental principle of human rights law, and all governments are obliged to combat discrimination in all its forms.

Antisemitism is the most commonly reported anti-religious hate crime in the United States, which is a crisis we must work to end. We must hold accountable — in our personal interactions, in our workplaces, in our communities, and in our activism — those who commit, encourage or acquiesce in such abuse against Jewish people, whenever and wherever it is inflicted.

I could write a book about how antisemitic Amnesty International is. In fact, I did discuss a small subset of my criticisms in three chapters of my book. But there is a lot more.

For the purposes of this article, I will talk about one further proof that Amnesty does not care about antisemitism, even in the form that they pretend to condemn here.

Amnesty has never condemned antisemitism from media in the Arab world.

Arab newspapers and TV shows feature pure antisemitism and incitement against Jews all the time - from Holocaust denial to fake Talmud quotes to Christian deicide to saying Jews control the world.

Quotes from actual articles:

"Jews are the enemy of God"
"Jews are rats who desecrate Jerusalem"
"Jews are like the devil"
"Jews are spreading corruption, usury, the spreading of lies and myths"

I see these kinds of articles several times a week.

Every single antisemitic myth that has ever been uttered over history - from medieval Christian hate to "Elders of Zion" conspiracy theories to Nazi literature - is rife in Arabic media.

But that's not even the worst part.

Palestinian media feature lots of purely antisemitic cartoons.

Some are incitement to hate Jews.

Others are incitement to murder Jews.


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Amnesty's hypocrisy on antisemitism is off the charts

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James Baldwin, Ye, and the Lesson the Jews Will Not Learn (Judean Rose)

The Baldwin theory of black antisemitism is that it's really anti-whiteness. The NY Times gave him 3820 words to say so in 1967.

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An antisemitic note threatening Jews was found at a Hillel center that serves students attending Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a campus newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“It’s not an easy moment for Jewish students,” Hillel Rabbi Josh Bolton told the Brown Daily Herald. “It’s scary to have this type of rhetoric show up in your home.”

Bolton also called on “Non-Jewish partners…to stand up and say, ‘anti-Jewish hatred has no place here. Antisemitic rhetoric has no place in the university.”

The Herald added that the university’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Providence Police Department are investigating the incident, the third within the last five months. In July and August, swastikas were carved on a tree and wall

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Threatening Antisemitic Note Left at Brown University Hillel

The campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. An antisemitic note threatening Jews was found at …

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The Newark, New Jersey, field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday afternoon issued an alert that it has received credible information of a “broad threat” to synagogues in New Jersey.

“We ask at this time that you take all security precautions to protect your community and facility. We will share more information as soon as we can. Stay alert,” the FBI tweeted. “We are taking a proactive measure with this warning while investigative processes are carried out.”


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FBI Issues Alert of ‘Credible’ Threat to New Jersey Synagogues

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At Berkeley Law School, faculty and staff members are encouraged to include their preferred pronouns in email signatures. Students can indicate their preferred pronouns on their law school applications, as well as on their name tags during student orientation.

Clearly, the right to identify oneself as one wishes is important at the law school, and anyone who chooses to ignore those wishes and tell students and staff that they refuse to address them as they self-identify would be marginalized as a bigot, and probably censured.

There is one exception, though.

This fall there has been a controversy at Berkeley Law when nine student organizations will not host events or invite speakers who have expressed views in support of Zionism. Many Jews protested, saying that this effectively discriminated against them as Zionism and Judaism are tightly bound.

The lawyer defending the student organizations, Liz Jackson of Palestine Legal, who is herself an alumnus of the school, defended the discriminatory bylaws in a most curious way:

“Some students say that their Jewish identity is so deeply identified with Zionism that this effectively discriminates against them," Jackson said. "But that’s their subjective view and choice about how they understand their own Jewish identity.”

According to Palestine Legal's lawyer, Jews do not have the right to say that their Judaism includes love of Israel. Self-identification is not a right for Jews, rather, Jewishness is defined by others and Jews must adhere to the definition that anti-Zionists impose on them.

This doesn't sound very progressive. But this is the argument of the Berkeley Law student organizations to defend their blocking any speaker for whom Israel is a central part of their Judaism, which includes the vast majority of Jews.

Jackson herself says she is Jewish. According to her own standards, I can declare that this is only her subjective view and that she is in reality not Jewish. How do you think that argument would go over at Berkeley? Yet that is exactly what she is saying about 95% of all Jews.

Jackson's hypocrisy doesn't end there.

Not only does she deny the right of Jews to define Judaism, she denies the right of Zionists to define Zionism!

In an Oct. 3 statement released by ASUC Senator Shay Cohen addressed to LSJP and student groups that adopted the bylaw, student groups alleged that the bylaw was “a deliberate attempt to exclude Jewish students from the community,” and likened anti-Zionism to antisemitism.

“When we say ‘Zionism,’ we mean the Jewish right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, which is Israel,” said Amir Grunhaus, campus senior and president of Tikvah, a Zionist student group that signed the statement. “This does not say anything about the self-determination of Palestinians.”

Jackson expressed disagreement with this definition of Zionism, alleging that it was “colonial ideology” and that it is “problematic” to believe that a religious group has a right to a state of their own as it “requires discrimination” against people outside of that group.

This is "1984"-level thought police stuff. This lawyer defines what her political opponents believe.

Note also that Jackson here is defining Jews as a purely religious group, not as a people. According to her words, atheist Jews aren't Jews, either.

Jewish and Zionist identity can only be defined by those who oppose Jewish and Zionist identity.

And this is still not the height of Liz Jackson's hypocrisy.

She wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times against the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act where she falsely claimed that the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, which is incorporated in the Act, makes criticism of Israel illegal on campus. She's lying - the IHRA definition explicitly says that criticism of Israel similar to criticism of any country is not antisemitic.

Jackson wrote:

The State Department standard is highly controversial because it conflates criticism of Israeli policies with anti-Jewish hatred, shutting down debate by suggesting that anyone who looks critically at Israeli policy is somehow beyond the pale. It has no place on college campuses in particular, where we need students to engage in a vigorous exchange of ideas.

Jackson claims she supports a vigorous exchange of ideas on campus. No Zionist I know of disagrees. But at Berkeley, she has taken the exact opposite stand, and defends organizations making bylaws that ban not only speech that supports Zionism, but they ban Zionist speakers from speaking on any topic whatsoever!

To anti-Zionist hypocrites like Jackson and her organization Palestine Legal, these are the rules:

The right to self-identify is sacred - except for Jews.
The right to define your own beliefs is sacred - except for Zionists.
The right to free speech is sacred - except for nearly all Jews.
And calling out this obvious hypocrisy is anti-Palestinian racism.

At Berkeley Law, everyone can choose their identity - except Jews. Everyone has free speech - except for nearly all Jews.

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European nations are struggling to accurately record and report a surge in antisemitic incidents amid the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a new report from the European Union’s main civil rights agency has warned.

“Few EU Member States record antisemitic incidents in a way that allows them to publish adequate official data, despite the serious negative impact of antisemitism on Jewish populations in the EU, and on society at large,” the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) observed.

Statistics published in the report showed a year-on-year rise in antisemitic incidents in all EU member states since 2011. Germany was the country registering the largest number of “politically motivated crimes with an antisemitic motive,” with 3,027 incidents recorded in 2021 alone.

Yet the true extent of antisemitic attacks is likely far higher than official numbers reflect, the report underlined.

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Europe Struggling to Record ‘Flourishing’ Antisemitism, EU Agency Warns

Antisemitic graffiti on a house in the historic center of Lyon in France. Photo: Twitter. European nations are struggling to …

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The Providence Police Department (PPD) has arrested a person suspected of leaving an antisemitic note threatening the Jewish community at Brown RISD Hillel, which serves students at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

“The suspect in this case is not a student, nor are they a member of the faculty or staff at BRH, Brown, or RISD,” Rabbi Josh Bolton said in an email to university students and community members, adding that the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office has taken over the case.

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Providence Police Arrest Suspect Accused of Leaving Antisemitic Note at Brown University Hillel

The campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Providence Police Department (PPD) has arrested a …

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation informed local Jewish leaders on Friday that the threats to New Jersey synagogues, which sparked a rare public warning a day earlier, had been “mitigated” and a suspect was in custody.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Attorney General Matt Platkin and FBI representatives held a call with Jewish leaders informing them that the suspect had been apprehended late Thursday night.

Once in custody, the suspect expressed his anger toward Jewish people but claimed he hadn’t been planning on acting on that sentiment, as he didn’t want to get into trouble, NBC News reported, citing multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.


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FBI says threat to New Jersey synagogues ‘mitigated’ after suspect nabbed

During interview with law enforcement, suspect speaks of anger toward Jewish people but insists he didn't plan to act on it for fear of getting into trouble

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Australian soccer bosses said Friday they have fined semi-professional club Sydney United 58 and ordered their staff to undergo anti-racism training after fans made Nazi salutes at last month’s Australia Cup final.

During the October 1 game against Macarthur FC, some Sydney United fans were shown on television making fascist salutes and shouting over a welcome speech by an indigenous representative.

The fans also chanted far-right Croatian songs during the game at CommBank Stadium in Sydney, Australian media reported.

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Australian soccer club fined after fans make Nazi salutes at match

Staff at Sydney United 58 to attend anti-racism training, team threatened with 3-year ban from competing if supporters misbehave in future

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Kanye West’s descent into anti-Semitic hysteria has been a clarifying moment for American Jews. We have found out who our friends are from their reaction or non-reaction to Kanye’s appalling statements. Unfortunately, not enough conservative and Republican leaders have spoken out. The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens’s incoherent defense of Kanye, who is a friend of hers, was disappointing. Hopefully she will reconsider and put some distance between herself and Kanye.

Much worse, however, is the case of Jason Whitlock. A black Christian conservative with 600,000 followers on Twitter, Whitlock works at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and frequently appears on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Newsshow. He is not only defending Kanye’s anti-Semitic outbursts, but also engaging in anti-Semitism himself, attacking Jewish people with rhetoric one would expect to find only on a fringe neo-Nazi website.

In an article at The Blazedefending Kanye’s comments about Jews having too much power and controlling black lives, Whitlock wrote, “I’m not going to entertain the lie that progressive secular elites—black, Jewish, LGBTQ or feminists—wield no power in the United States. Miss me with that ‘trope.’ Denial of the mass power they’ve collected is just one of the many lies they use to avoid accountability.”


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Why is conservative media defending anti-Semitism?

Does the reaction to Kanye West’s statements show that American Jew-hatred has been mainstreamed?

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It’s been quite a news cycle for headline-inducing antisemitic macro-aggressions.

The fallout from Kanye West’s tweet about going “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” and his claims Adidas would not take action even if he “said antisemitic s---” (wrong, as we found out Tuesday) continues apace. A white supremacist group in Los Angeles unfurled a “Kanye is right about the Jews” banner on the 405 and performed Nazi salutes for motorists. Jenna Ellis, a former Trump lawyer and current adviser to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, referred to Democrat Josh Shapiro as “at best a secular Jew.” A white nationalist raged about urinating on the Talmud, and on and on it went.

What Trump is actually saying is slightly different from a generic dual loyalty charge. And far more dangerous.
But no roundup of This Week In Antisemitism would be complete without a contribution from Donald J. Trump, a true thought leader, influencer and innovator in the Judeophobic space. Via a post on his own conservative media platform Truth Social, the former president counseled Jewish Americans to emulate “our wonderful Evangelicals,” urging Jews to follow the evangelicals in supporting and admiring him for all he has done for Israel.


To Trump’s point, amongst the Jewish electorate, support and admiration have not been abundantly forthcoming: In 2016 and 2020, roughly 70 to 75% of Jewish Americans did not cast their vote for Trump (whereas 80% of evangelicals did). Perhaps aware of those data points, Trump routinely chides the Jewish community. There was thus nothing surprising when he concluded his post with a warning: “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — before it’s too late.”

Many in the media and elsewhere reasoned that the former president was playing the “dual loyalty” card with his comments. This well-known antisemitic slander avers that Jews are unpatriotic — more committed to other Jews, and/or Israel, than to the well-being of the United States.

But what Trump is actually saying is slightly different from a generic dual loyalty charge. And far more dangerous.

Trump is making subtle innovations in antisemitic rhetoric, all the while deploying time-tested, old school, anti-Jewish tropes. He might insinuate that all Jews are great negotiators. He might refer to them as "brutal killers" in the real estate business. Nor is he above going Full Shylock. Journalist Yair Rosenberg flagged a Trump quote from decades back: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” That’s some classic antisemitism (and racism) right there.

But lately you’ll notice a tweak: Trump’s now dividing Jews into two mutually exclusive categories of unequal size. First, there are the good Jews. They vote for MAGA Republicans. They unequivocally support Israel (by which Trump means hard-right Israeli governments beholden to religious-nationalist policies).

In fact, these Jews support Israel so much that Trump speaks of them as if they are Israelis, not Americans. When he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2019, he informed his audience that “I stood with your prime minister,” Benjamin Netanyahu (italics mine). Elsewhere, he pointed out to celebrants at a White House Chanukah gathering that Mike Pence and his wife Karen really love “your country” (again, italics mine). Dual loyalties? Not a problem. As long as good Jews support Donald Trump, it’s kosher by him.
The dual loyalty slander maintains that Jews are clannish, they “stick together.” Trump himself made this very observation. But now he faults the Jewish majority for not sticking together with the Jewish minority who venerate Trump. What separates the good from the bad Jews is worship of Trump — and given the idol in question, that’s what makes this strain of antisemitism so volatile and dangerous.

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The dual loyalty slander maintains that Jews are clannish, they “stick together.” Trump himself made this very observation. But now he faults the Jewish majority for not sticking together with the Jewish minority who venerate Trump. What separates the good from the bad Jews is worship of Trump — and given the idol in question, that’s what makes this strain of antisemitism so volatile and dangerous.

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Opinion | Trump has crafted a variant of antisemitism all his own

Donald Trump is a true influencer and innovator in the Judeophobic space.

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Jewish groups thought Elon Musk was listening to them about antisemitism on Twitter. Then Kanye West came back.

In the week after the rapper who now goes by Ye lost most of his endorsements due to his antisemitic rants, and amid an apparent uptick in broader antisemitic content on the platform, the Anti-Defamation League met with Musk, the social media giant’s mercurial new owner, about keeping hate speech off the site.

Three days later, all goodwill from the meeting has devolved, as anti-Jewish content on Twitter is experiencing a “prolific surge,” according to the Network Contagion Research Institute, a firm that monitors the spread of online hate and disinformation. The institute said Friday that “terms associated with Jew are being tweeted over 5,000 times per hour,” and that “the most engaged tweets are overtly antisemitic.”

Meanwhile, West has begun calling out individual Jews, such as music mogul Scooter Braun and the sports branding businessman Jamie Salter, on his account, and online networks of antisemites have seized on Musk’s ownership as an opportunity to launch a full-court press of hateful content on the site.

Now, instead of working alongside Musk to develop new content moderation tools, the ADL is calling on all advertisers to suspend their relationship with Twitter, while offering a harsh critique of Musk’s leadership.

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But by late Thursday, West — one of Twitter’s most popular users, with 38 million followers — began his latest antisemitic tirade on the platform, which he had recently been reinstated on following a suspension for hate speech. Musk said he played no role in West’s reinstatement.

Seemingly prompted by the media attention given to Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving in the wake of the star guard’s own antisemitism controversy, West posted a series of conspiratorial messages about various Jewish figures. Beyond Braun and Salter, he called out celebrity personal trainer Harley Pasternak and Amar’e Stoudemire — the former NBA star who converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2020 and had a brief stint as a Nets assistant coach.

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Finchem’s account was restored a little over a week prior to midterm elections and prior to Musk’s meeting with the ADL. The candidate, who also denies the results of the 2020 election, thanked Musk for reinstating him, declaring, “Twitter is much better with you at the helm.”

Like other right-wing politicians and media figures who make regular references to Soros, Finchem has said such behavior is not antisemitic. He refuted a charge of antisemitism by declaring, “I love the Jews,” but has also frequently employed language calling his opponents “Marxists,” a charge that, historically, antisemites dating back to Great Depression-era radio preacher Father Coughlin have directed at liberal or secular Jews.

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As antisemitism spikes after Elon Musk takeover, ADL calls for Twitter ad boycott

Anti-Jewish content on platform sees 'prolific surge'; ADL offers harsh critique of Musk just days after meeting

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