#Antisemitism cynically weaponized by people whose actual politics often align with or enable real antisemitic movements. They’re not protecting Jews - they’re exploiting Jewish safety concerns to advance far-right, #Islamophobic, and anti-left political goals while using #eugenic language that would make 1930s immigration restrictionists nod approvingly.

Some quotes taken from The #Telegraph - a right-wing British newspaper hostile to #Starmer’s Labour government - which “broke the story” I believe:

Garson’s characterization of British Jews as desirable asylum seekers is textbook eugenic framing: “highly educated community,” “speaks English natively,” “doesn’t have a high proportion of criminals.”

Excellent criteria for model citizens. See Jeffrey #Epstein (financier, sex trafficker), Bernie #Madoff (largest Ponzi scheme in history), Sam #Bankman-Fried (crypto fraudster, billions stolen), Harvey #Weinstein (serial rapist) - all highly educated, native English speakers, yet among US’ most notorious criminals. Before we even check antisemitism rates in the USA: from Charlottesville’s “Jews will not replace us” chants to the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue massacre (deadliest antisemitic attack in US history), the Poway synagogue shooting, the Jersey City kosher market attack, and the 2022 record-breaking spike that continued into 2023’s all-time high of 8,873 incidents.

The point isn’t that Jewish Americans are criminals. The point is Garson’s eugenic framing is absurd and offensive. His language implies other refugee groups have “high proportions of criminals” - classic racist immigration rhetoric. This is the same dehumanizing logic used to justify rejecting refugees fleeing actual violence, like Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

But honestly, why would Jews want to move to a country where #ICE operates as a budding #Gestapo, hunting and kidnapping people off the streets of major cities? A country with concentration camps at the border, family separations, and a president who called neo-Nazis “very fine people”? A country where the administration uses eugenic language to determine which refugees are “desirable”?

People know what happens when governments start categorizing people by ethnic desirability, deploying paramilitaries to round up unwanted populations, and building detention camps. The real danger to Jewish safety everywhere comes from the cynicism of pro-Israel “machers” (Yiddish makher) embedded in Trump’s administration, who are weaponizing antisemitism accusations while enabling the very fascist tactics that historically threaten Jews. They’re providing cover for far-right #authoritarianism by selectively invoking Jewish safety.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/trump-uk-jewish-asylum

Crypto Comes For Sherrod Brown:

$32 Million in Ads Boosting His Opponent

Crypto companies are spending $800,000 a day to take out one of their chief critics in Congress — and replace him with an ally

Late 2023 was not a great time for the crypto industry.

In November, #Sam #Bankman-#Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, learned that no amount of Michael Lewis gymnastics could save him from being convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy.

He was eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison after disappearing $11 billion of other people’s money.

The following month, Sen. #Elizabeth #Warren sent letters to three crypto industry giants, the 🔸Blockchain Association, 🔸Coin Center, and 🔸Coinbase, criticizing them for undermining efforts to rein in crypto’s use in #terrorist #financing.

Around the same time, crypto groups began making noises about ♦️spending money in 2024 to defeat Ohio Sen. #Sherrod #Brown, the current ⭐️chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

❇️ Brown is a profound skeptic of the industry and signed off on Warren holding hearings on crypto’s possible links to terrorism.

Asked about the threats, Brown, a mop-topped Democrat with a raspy voice and wry sense of humor, said he was unconcerned.

But Brown had no idea of what was to come.

Rolling Stone has learned that crypto interests are set to spend💥 $32 million on TV ads promoting #Bernie #Moreno, Brown’s Republican opponent, by the end of September, according to Democratic media buyers.

The spending began on August 22
— meaning 🔥the crypto interests are spending more than $800,000 per day to flip the Ohio Senate seat, and potentially control of the Senate.

“Outside groups are spending record amounts to try to defeat Sherrod because they know he will always fight for Ohio, not special interests,” said Reeves Oyster, a Brown campaign spokesperson.

So far, the ads have been primarily fluffy positive spots boosting Moreno; some of the spots fearmonger about immigrants and China.

Tracing the roots of "Defend American Jobs" can be as convoluted as tracing crypto currency itself.

The group is effectively a subsidiary of #Fairshake
— the second-largest fundraiser among Super PACs this season according to OpenSecrets,
with over $200 million in its coffers.

♦️The bulk of Fairshake’s money has been donated by three crypto monoliths: Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ripple.

#Coinbase and its affiliates have donated $86 million.

The founders of the venture capital firm #Andreessen #Horowitz have together given $44 million.

#Ripple has contributed $25 million. (The #Winklevoss #Twins, who donated nearly $5 million to Fairshake, previously tried to donate $1 million in bitcoin to Donald Trump
— well beyond what is legal.)

Coinbase’s CEO #Brian #Armstrong has led the latest charge to bring crypto into the political mainstream,
hosting a Super Tuesday rally with Nas in Los Angeles where he proclaimed,
“More Americans own crypto than own electric vehicles or are in a union
— yet some people in D.C. are still underestimating how much and how many people care about crypto.

In 2024, it will become clear that being anti-crypto is bad politics.”

Rep. #Katie #Porter found that out the hard way.

During the California Democratic Senate primary, ⚠️Fairshake spent over $10 million against her campaign, apparently because she had the temerity to question the energy uses of the industry.

Porter didn’t make the runoff, losing to Adam Schiff, a longtime collaborator with crypto who received an ‘A’ rating from "Stand With Crypto", a self-described grassroots advocacy hub nonprofit led by Coinbase and fronted by Armstrong.

Porter got an ‘F.’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/sherrod-brown-crypto-bernie-moreno-millions-1235102478/

#Sam #Bankman-#Fried, once the CEO of #FTX and a billionaire wunderkind of the #cryptocurrency world, will be sentenced to prison time on Thursday in New York City.

Should the judge in his case impose the harshest penalty allowed, the 32-year-old would face more than 100 years and die an incarcerated man, a possibility his lawyer has called “grotesque.”

In advance of the hearing, lawyers for the US Department of Justice and for Bankman-Fried have engaged in bitter back-and-forth over how long of a prison sentence would be appropriate.
His lawyers have argued for a minimal sentence of just six years.
Prosecutors are advocating for 40-50 years for his “unmatched greed and hubris” in perpetrating the🔸 $8bn (£6.3bn) fraud.🔸

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/25/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-multi-billion-dollar-fraud?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Il Podcast Tech Won't save us ha fatto un sondaggio sul soggetto peggiore del mondo "Tech" con il metodo delle sfide dirette

Ai blocchi di partenza 32 partecipanti, tra cui Bill #Gates, Sam #Altman, Marck #Zuckerberg, Satya #Nadella, Sam #Bankman-Fried, Jack #Dorsey, Linda #Yaccarino.

In finale sono arrivati Jeff #Bezos ed Elon #Musk

Non è difficile immaginare il vincitore...🙃

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