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Western Jewish communities, which were only recently emancipated, had their own anxieties about the influx of Eastern European Jews. Established Jewish elites feared these “backward masses” would undermine the hard-won argument that Jews could integrate into European society. As #antisemitism surged (the Dreyfus affair in France, Karl Lueger’s openly antisemitic mayoralty in Vienna), Western Zionists had a strong interest in redirecting this migration elsewhere. Meanwhile, non-Zionist organizations, principally the Alliance Israélite Universelle, took a different approach: educating and “westernizing” Jewish communities in the Balkans (initially) and North Africa. It was a project embedded within French colonial presence in North Africa. The AIU’s civilizing-mission framing was itself a well-documented form of cultural imperialism and Jewish orientalism. These power structures were then reproduced in Palestine after Israel’s establishment in 1948, following the Nakba, shaping similar ethnic and class hierarchies (Kazoom).

“There is a social cohesion crisis going on..."

"Labor accused of ignoring anti-racism plan as documents reveal repeated pleas to take action. Federal Labor has been accused of dragging its feet on a plan to combat systemic racism in Australia, nearly 18 months after it received recommendations from the human rights commission." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/labor-accused-ignoring-anti-racism-plan-documents-reveal-repeated-pleas-take-action-ntwnfb
#cohesion #RoyalCommission #hate #racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #dehumanisation #violence #Australia #HumanRights

Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia

"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent."

"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."

"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."

"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/melissa-lucashenko-on-rebuilding-social-cohesion-indigenous-australians-ntwnfb
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation

London Synagogue Targeted in Suspected Firebomb Attack

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/london-synagogue-targeted-antisemitism-suspected-firebomb-attack/

Today in Labor History April 19, 1903: The Kishinev pogrom occurred in Bessarabia. At the time, Bessarabia was part of the Russian Empire. Today it is part of Moldova. During the pogrom, local Christians killed 49 Jews, raped many Jewish women and destroyed over 1500 homes. The incident led Zionist founder, Theodor Herzl, to propose the Uganda Scheme for resettlement of the Jews in east Africa. The British government supported the plan, as it would help further their interests and imperialism in Africa, and help limit the influx of Jewish refugees into Britain from eastern Europe. Herzl had also proposed creating a Jewish homeland in Cyprus. Of course, what he really desired was a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but the Kishinev pogrom caused him to feel a greater urgency to create any kind of homeland as quickly as possible, and east Africa was what was being offered. The proposal nearly fractured the Zionist movement, with many delegates walking out, and other expressing a loss of faith in Herzl’s leadership. White British gentile settlers in east Africa also opposed the plan.

#antisemitism #moldova #pogrom #palestine #zionism #jewish

Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: The 50,000 Jews remaining in Warsaw began a desperate and heroic attempt to resist Nazi deportation to extermination camps. Their armed insurgency became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was the largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during World War II.

There had been over 3 million Jews living in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation. The Nazis rounded them up and forced them into crowded ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto had 250,000-300,000 Jews living in abominable conditions. Roughly this same number of Jews were slaughtered at the Treblinka concentration camp within the two months the Nazis started deporting them. The Warsaw Jews managed to stockpile Molotov cocktails, rifles, hand grenades, military uniforms, and even a few pistols and some explosives. However, the resistance was crushed by the Nazis on May 16.

Organizing for the uprising, and military training, were provided by the left-wing, youth-led Jewish Combat Organization and the right-wing Jewish Military Union. However, the Jews knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world’s silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was “not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #antisemitism #WarsawGhettoUprising #jews #poland #warsaw #WorldWarII #nazis #genocide #resistance #uprising #insurrection #fascism #antifa #antifascism

Hecking cripes, these synagogue attacks. Thank goodness some of these have ended up only being attempted.

#AntiSemitism